Pundit of the Public
George Baird (centre) en route to Finland in summer 1959; Front and back cover of the first edition of Meaning in Architecture, edited by Charles Jencks and George Baird, 1969. Courtesy of George Baird fonds, University of Calgary
When academic stallions are sent out to pasture, the last thing some are saddled with is a festschrift. These are collections of laudatory essays from colleagues and former students. While appreciated by their subjects, these books are often of limited impact and import, and?like most end-of-career gifts?wind up on display on office shelves.
What University of Toronto Daniels School professor Roberto Damiani has created is not a token festschrift in honour of his colleague George Baird, but something much more interesting, original and enduring. The Architect and the Public: On George Baird?s Contribution to Architecture is nothing less than a comprehensive account of the climate of architectural ideas at all stages of Baird?s career, from when he obtained his B.Arch. from the University of Toronto in 1962 right up to the present. Contributing essays and interviews to the book are international beacons like Kenneth Frampton, Joan Ockman, Michael Hays, Mark Baraness and Peter Eisenman, plus such leading lights of Canadian architectural culture as Bruce Kuwabara, Louis Martin, John van Nostrand, Hans Ibelings and Adrian Blackwell. Because of the range of these contributors and the depth of their ideas, this book is essential to understanding the lif...
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