The Architect and the Public: On the Contribution of George Baird to Architecture is a collection of essays on the work of George Baird investigating the public engagement of the contemporary architect. With the rise of mass media and increasing number of architectural journals, traditional modes of producing and communicating architecture have been transformed. With the failure of Modern architecture to achieve social transformation, theory became important to express architecture's cultural relevance. The participation of the architect in such discourses fashioned the architect as an intellectual rather than a building specialist.
George Baird's work and research reflect this change, along with other protagonists such as Colin Rowe, Kenneth Frampton and Peter Eisenman, in defining the North American architectural debates. With his early efforts to redefine architectural theory as a doctoral student, his involvement with Toronto city planning and his commitment to teaching at the universities of Toronto and Harvard, Baird has played an instrumental role in shaping the relationship between the architect and the public.
The Architect and the Public: On the Contribution of George Baird to Architecture follows Artifice's best-selling Writings on Architecture and the City by George Baird.
- ISBN13 9781911339182
- Publish Date 27 September 2018
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Artifice Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 292
- Language English