Kenneth Frampton pays tribute to the French-born educator and architect—a close collaborator of Le Corbusier—who died on March 9 in Lexington, Kentucky.
The Albuquerque-based AIA Gold Medalist made his mark on New Mexico and the American Southwest—and beyond—with high-profile cultural commissions and academic projects.
The San Francisco–based co-founder of Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects is remembered as a mentor, a pioneer of sustainable design, and a firm believer that architecture should serve people of all backgrounds and abilities.
Affiliated with a number of institutions including Princeton, Cooper Union, Yale, and Brown, England-born Vidler was a towering figure in the world of architectural academia and thought.
Baird, a frequent RECORD contributor and recipient of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's Gold Medal, served as dean of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto from 2004–2009.
