Main entry:

Baird, George, 1938- author.

Title & Author:

Writings on architecture and the city / George Baird ; introduction by Francesco Garofalo.

Publication:

London : Artifice Books on Architecture c2015.

Description:

291 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: Architecture and Semiotics -- La Dimension Amoureuse in Architecture, 1969 -- The Dining Position: A Question of Langue and Parole, 1976 -- A Critical Reflection on the Theory and Practice of Architectural Symbolism in the Work of Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown, and Their Colleagues, 1976 -- Semiotics and Architecture, 1998 -- Architectural Theory Between Structuralism and Phenomenology -- Alvar Aalto, 1970 -- Rome and Modern Architecture: A Personal Reminiscence, 2000 -- On the Phenomenology of Spatial Sequences: Frank Gehry's Disney Hall and Hans Scharoun's Berlin Philharmonic, 2012 -- Urban Morphology and Building Typology -- Theory: Vacant Lots in Toronto, 1978 -- Studies on Urban Morphology in North America, 1988 -- Mutant Urbanity: Revisiting Las Vegas, 2004 -- Thoughts on "Agency", "Utopia" and "Property" in Contemporary Architectural and Urban Theory, 2013 -- Critical Biography -- pt. 1
Rem Koolhaas, OMA, and some other Dutch architects -- Les Extremes Qui se Touchent, 1977 -- OMA, Neo-Modern and Modernity, 2001 -- Review of Mart Stam's Trousers by Crimson, with Michael Speaks and Gerard Hadders, 2001 -- An Open Letter to Rem Koolhaas, 2007 -- pt. 2 Ignasi de Sola-Morales -- Review of Differences: Topographies of Contemporary Architecture, 1997 -- pt. 3 Colin Rowe -- Oppositions in the Thought of Colin Rowe, 1997 -- The Work, Teaching and Contemporary Influence of Colin Rowe: A 1999 Status Report, 1999 -- pt. 4 Joseph Rykwert -- "A Promise as Well as a Memory": Notes Towards an Intellectual Biography of Joseph Rykwert, 2002 -- Public Space -- On Publicness and Monumentality in the Work of Machado and Silvetti, 1994 -- Review of "Free University Berlin: AA Publication/Exhibition in the Members' Room 21 May -- 18 June, 1999", 1999 -- The New Urbanism and Public Space, 2007
On the "Critical" in Contemporary Architectural Theory -- Criticality and Its Discontents, 2004 -- Why Can't Architecture Just Be Happy? 2009.

Summary:

Writings on Architecture' is an anthology of texts by George Baird, focusing on his on-going interest in planning and the built environment, something which is particularly manifest in his attention to the city of Toronto, where he is active in architecture, urban design and heritage preservation.0After graduating from the University of Toronto in 1962, and then from University College, London, England, Baird went on to teach architectural theory and design at the Royal College of Art, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, returning to Toronto in 1967. There, he founded his architectural practice, and joined the faculty of architecture at the University of Toronto and the faculty of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, where he was the G Ware Travelstead Professor of Architecture, and Director of the M Arch I and M Arch II Programs. From 2005 to 2009 Baird was Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto.0A principal author of the pioneering 1974 urban design study 'Onbuildingdowntown', he is the author/editor of numerous books, including 'Meaning in Architecture' (with Charles Jencks), 1968; 'Alvar Aalto', 1969; 'The Space of Appearance', 1995; and 'Queues, Rendezvous, Riots' (with Mark Lewis), 1995.The book includes an introductory essay by Louis Martin and is essential reading for those interested in architecture, architectural history and theory, urbanism and the built environment.

ISBN:

9781908967541 (paperback)
1908967544 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
City planning.

Form/genre:

Writings.

Added entries:

Garofalo, Francesco, writer of introduction.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290006
Call No.: BIB 232743
Status: Available