Mr. Baird was part of a small group who reshaped the city’s built-form and planning policy, and also contributed to the birth of the discipline of architectural theory with the book Meaning in Architecture, which he co-authored
George Baird liked to tell a story about a flight to Boston. In the 1990s, on one of his weekly trips to teach at Harvard University, the architect and theorist became very familiar with the route. Once, he noticed the plane wasn’t passing over the right territory, and called a flight attendant to ask whether he was on the wrong plane. No, he was told. Everything was in order. And yet, as he always said to conclude this tale, the plane changed direction anyway.
Playing outside, “I learned from a very early age how to entertain myself,” he wrote, “and one of the principal ways was to play in a sandbox beside our garage, a box the sides of which I soon removed, since the sand cities that I was constructing there required more space than the original box provided.”
The marriage would last almost 60 years. Ms. Baird would achieve prominence in her own right as a food writer and editor, becoming arguably better-known than her husband; both were inducted separately into the Order of Canada. The couple pursued separate intellectual interests, Ms. Baird said, but warmly supported each other’s pursuits. “And George loved to entertain,” she recalled.
In 1967, the Bairds returned to Toronto. The next year, Mr. Baird began teaching at the University of Toronto; soon afterward he launched his own office, George Baird Architect.
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