Thoughts on `Agency’, `Utopia’, and `Property’ in Contemporary Architectural and Urban Theory
Thursday February 7th 2013
Main Lecture Theatre | 6:45
This Thursday February 7th, George Baird, concludes the Fall 2012 / Winter 2013 Arriscraft Lecture Series, ARCHITECTURE OUTSIDE THE LINES. Baird has been an informal commentator for the entire series, where he has lent his broad experience and critical gifts to the discussion of issues posed during the lectures. His lecture will track the relationship between patterns of ownership of urban land, and the urban form that results in part, from it. It will also track the strange failure of Modern Architecture historically, to come to terms with the urban fact of differentiated land ownership.
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George Baird is Emeritus Professor of Architecture, and the former dean of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. He is the founding principal of the Toronto-based architecture and urban design firm Baird Sampson Neuert Architects. Prior to becoming Dean at the University of Toronto in 2004, Baird was the G. Ware Travelstead Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. He has published and lectured widely throughout most parts of the world.
He is co-editor (with Charles Jencks) of Meaning in Architecture (1969), and (with Mark Lewis) of Queues Rendezvous, Riots (1995). He is author of Alvar Aalto (1969) and The Space of Appearance (1995). His latest book: Public Space; Cultura/lPolitical Theory; Street Photography was published by SUN Publications in Amsterdam in 2011.
Baird’s consulting firm, Baird Sampson Neuert is the winner of numerous design awards, including Canadian Architect Magazine awards over many years, and Governor General’s Awards for Cloud Gardens Park in 1994, Erindale Hall on the campus of the University of Toronto at Mississauga in 2006, and the French River Visitor Centre in 2010.
Baird is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. He has been the recipient of the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Architecture and Design Award (1992), the da Vinci Medal of the Ontario Association of Architects (2000), and the Gold Medal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (2010). Most recently, he has been selected as the 2012 winner of the Topaz Medallion of the American Institute of Architects and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
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