George L. Legendre
Design Critic in Architecture
Department of Architecture
George L. Legendre is an architect and educator. He graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1994 and served as lecturer and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the GSD from 1995 to 2000. Prior to founding IJP Corporation (IJP), his London-based office, he was visiting Professor at the ETH Zurich (2001), Princeton University (2003-05), and the AA School of Architecture, London, where he served as unit Master of Diploma Unit 5 (2002-2008). A onetime applied researcher, he has written graphics software and even filed for an abortive technology patent with Harvard university, where he led the visual structures with Larry D. Burks at the Center of Design Informatics (1997-99). He is now a practicing architect, in charge of an office that explores the natural intersection between space, mathematics, and computation. IJP has just completed Henderson Waves, a 1000-foot-long bridge located in Singapore, and is chasing competitions worldwide. In 2007, the influential UK weekly Building Design elected the firm as one of the top 5 practices in Britain led by principals under the age of forty. The work of IJP has been featured worldwide, most recently as the cover feature of AA Files 57 (London 2007), Architectural Review, and Icon Magazine (both London 2008). A regularly published essayist, George L. Legendre is the author of IJP:The Book of Surfaces, as well as Bodyline: the End of our Meta-Mechanical Body, and a Critical essay in Mathematical Form: John Pickering and the Architecture of the Inversion Principle (all AA Publications, 2003-06).