TIM BAIRD
 

 

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TIMOTHY BAIRD

 

 

Timothy Baird is a licensed landscape architect and Professor and Chair of the Landscape Architecture Department at Cornell University.  He previously held tenure track positions at the Pennsylvania State University and Texas Tech University where he taught design, design implementation, analog representation, and the history of landscape architecture beyond Modernism.  Baird’s ongoing research focuses on two areas: material expression in the designed landscape since the Modern era and the influences that helped to shape the designer’s approach and palette, as well as environmental art and designed landscapes that were commissioned in land reclamation contexts.  Before entering academia in a fulltime capacity, he practiced landscape architecture for 25 years on both coasts of the United States and in the Middle East with a variety of firms including Peter Walker and Partners, Hanna/Olin, Ltd., Hargreaves Associates, Collins DuTot Partnership, and Kuwaiti Engineers Office.  During this time, he held part time or visiting teaching positions at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Louisiana State University.

 

Professor Baird’s writing and drawings have been published in Critiques of Built Works of Landscape Architecture, Garten und Landschaft, Landscape Architecture, Landscape Design, Landscape Review, Ecological Design and Planning, and Terry Farrell: Urban Design covering a diverse range of topics.  He has lectured at several universities including Harvard, UVA, UC Berkeley, LSU, Arkansas, Auburn, SUNY ESF, Lisbon University, University of Buffalo, Ohio State, Clemson, and Rutgers and he has served as guest critic on studio reviews at Harvard, Penn, Lisbon University, Boston Architectural Center, Carnegie Mellon, RISD, University of California Berkeley, and LSU. His most recent honors and awards include a 2015 Dumbarton Oaks Summer Fellowship to continue his material research, a 2015 Stuckeman Endowed Professorship in Interdisciplinary Design at Penn State, a 2015 Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) Excellence in Design Studio Teaching Award, and he was one of 32 Knight Cities Challenge grant winners in 2015 to implement a prototype plant nursery on vacant land in Philadelphia.

In 2008, Baird presented the keynote lecture, “Herbert Bayer and the Art of Reclamation” at the 25th anniversary celebration of artist Herbert Bayer’s internationally renowned Mill Creek Canyon Earthworks in Kent, Washington, and was featured in a place for people, a documentary film about the anniversary of the earthwork. He was appointed the Richard W. Trott Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Knowlton School of Architecture of the Ohio State University in winter of 2008.

 

In addition to his teaching and scholarly pursuits, Baird has practiced landscape architecture since 2004 as an Adjunct Principal with the award winning critical practice, Landworks Studio, Inc. in Boston, a firm that has been nominated twice in the past two years for the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award.  While with Landworks Studio, he has played a leading role in developing the evolving body of work that reflects a commitment to proto-urban, strategic renewal efforts with aggressive ecological agendas in the design and implementation of several projects including the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Macallen Building, Boston’s first LEED certified residential building and subject of the documentary film, The Greening of Southie by Bullfrog films, the LEED Platinum Blackstone Power Plant Renovation on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, and the LEED Gold 200 5th Avenue in New York City, winner of the 2012 American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Design Honor Award, New York Chapter American Institute of Architects (AIA) Merit Award, featured in the April 2010 issue of Metropolis, and was on the cover of the September 2012 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine. Baird has most recently been working on projects on the RISD and West Chester University campuses and the Under Armour’s Port Covington mixed use development and waterfront park on the Baltimore harbor that are grounded in ecologically performative design principles.

 

Originally from Alabama, Timothy Baird received a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree from Louisiana State University, where he previously served on the Director’s Advisory Council, and a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

 

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The 2018 Atmosphere Symposium is co-chaired by: Lisa Landrum and Liane Veness with the support of the Faculty's Cultural Events Committee and the Centre for Architectural Structure and Technology (C.A.S.T.); web design and graphics support by Tali Budman (ED4 Architecture student), and administrative support from Brandy O’Reilly (Faculty of Architecture, Partners Program).

 

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