Writings on Architecture and the City,by George Baird. Artifice Books on Architecture, February 2015, 292 pages, $29.95.
It is impossible to do justice in the space available to the critical writing of the distinguished Canadian architect/theorist George Baird. Nevertheless, some of the heterogeneous character of this anthology may be gleaned from the title, ranging, as it does, from semiotics to urban planning. In regard to the latter, the postwar rationalist urbanism of the Italian Tendenza movement influenced him in working with students on typological (building type) and morphological (urban structure) studies for the city of Toronto. This mode of beholding underpinned Baird’s urban discourse until his book The Space of Appearance (1995) showed his turn toward the public realm in a political sense as that was elaborated in Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition (1954).
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