James Sanders

James Sanders (born 1955) is an architect, author, and filmmaker in New York City, whose work has garnered him a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Emmy Award, and elevation to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, among other honors. James Sanders, FAIA, is a graduate of Columbia College (where he received the Chanler Prize in History) and Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and is an alumnus of the MIT School of Architecture + Planning. Since 1985 he has been principal of James Sanders Studio, an architecture, design and research practice located in New York City. He received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for research on the experience of cities, and grants and fellowships from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, and Furthermore, a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund. In 2013 he was appointed Senior Fellow at the Center for Urban Real Estate in Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, to direct a pioneering research and conference initiative called Building the Digital City: Tech and the Transformation of New York.Mr. Sanders co-founded the Architectural League's Prize Competition for young architects and designers, is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Century Association, and the Writers Guild of America/East. He is a Fellow of the Forum for Urban Design, and sits on the Board of Trustees of The Skyscraper Museum. In 2021 he was elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, the AIA's highest membership honor, in recognition of his "notable contributions to the advancement of the profession of architecture."Since 2016 Mr. Sanders has served as Global Design Council Chairman and design consultant for the architecture firm, Woods Bagot.