Projects and Publications

The Space of Appearance

George Baird

The Space of Appearance is a phrase taken from Hannah Arendt’s magisterial text: The Human Condition. This text of Baird is his major effort to frame a history of key debates in architectural and urban theory during the twentieth century, within the political theory of Arendt.

Queues, Rendezvous, Riots

George Baird
Queues, Rendezvous, Riots is a catalogue of an exhibition held at the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Banff, Alberta. The exhibition included installations by, among others, artists Martha Fleming and Lynn Lapointe, Vera Frenkel, Dan Graham, Jeff Wall, and architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, and Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti.

Vacant Lottery: Design Quarterly No: 108

George Baird
Vacant Lottery is a special issue of the Design Quarterly published by the Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis, and edited by Mildred S. Friedman. The issue was guest-edited by Baird together with Barton Myers.

Alvar Aalto

George Baird
The short text Baird prepared for this monograph illustrated by photographs of Yukio Futagawa was one of the earliest ones to interpret Aalto’s oeuvre in a phenomenological perspective.

Meaning in Architecture

George Baird
Meaning in Architecture is one of the first publications in English to introduce what we now know as “architectural theory” to professional and academic audiences in architecture.
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