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George Baird

George Baird is an architect, author and educator based in Toronto. He and Charles Jencks were the co-editors of the 1970 book Meaning in Architecture.

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The late architect, author, critic, and educator Robert M. Maxwell is pictured here on the roof of Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, France, in 2013.

Obituary: Robert M. Maxwell, 1922-2020

George Baird
January 15, 2020
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Maxwell, an architect, author, critic, and educator, died on January 2. In this tribute, George Baird remembers him as postmodernism's "most insightful theorist."


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Review: ‘Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths’ at the CCA

Review: ‘Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths’ at the CCA

George Baird
February 18, 2019
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George Baird comments on an exhibition curated by historian and theorist Sylvia Lavin.


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Drawing on Architecture: The Object of Lines, 1970-1990

Drawing on Architecture: The Object of Lines, 1970-1990

By Jordan Kauffman
George Baird
November 7, 2018
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A new book takes a look at prominent architectural drawings over the years.


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Remembering Places: A Memoir

Remembering Places: A Memoir

By Joseph Rykwert
George Baird
February 3, 2018
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The prestigious historian looks back on his role in the development of architecture.


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A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form
Frampton on Baird/Baird on Frampton

A Genealogy of Modern Architecture: Comparative Critical Analysis of Built Form

George Baird reviews Kenneth Frampton's new book.
George Baird
May 1, 2016
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In A Genealogy of Modern Architecture, the prolific historian, critic, and theorist Kenneth Frampton presents a documentation of a course he used to teach, which involved comparative critical analyses of 14 pairs of more or less canonical modern buildings completed between 1924 and 2007.


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Makers of Modern Architecture (Volume II): From Le Corbusier to Rem Koolhaas

George Baird
September 16, 2013
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By Martin Filler. New York Review Books, 2013, 336 pages, $30. A Voice for Here and Now Martin Filler's new collection of essays appears in the wake of a significant shift in the tenor of architectural criticism. Gone are such provocative, if “unstable” (Filler's word), figures as Herbert Muschamp, and such cheerleaders for the star system as Nicolai Ouroussoff. Instead, we have their more measured successor at The New York Times, Michael Kimmelman, as well as the similarly thoughtful Christopher Hawthorne at the Los Angeles Times and Blair Kamin at the Chicago Tribune. But Filler can claim to have launched
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Sustainability Scrutinized: Criticism Arises in Academic and Professional Discourses

George Baird
August 16, 2011
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August 2011 At two recent architectural events — one academic, the other professional — sustainability met with both skepticism and criticism in ways I hadn’t anticipated. It suggests we have reached a point where sustainable architecture needs to be addressed more rigorously. Photography: © Prakash Patel The Philip Merrill Environmental Center in Annapolis, Maryland, by SmithGroup (2000) is the subject of a lawsuit. The academic event was a conference at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning in April that focused on the place of history in architecture school curricula. Most explicit was Ellen Grimes, a
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