In Memoriam: George Wagner (1953 – 2024)

Architect and Professor Emeritus George Wagner passed away peacefully at a long-term care facility in Vancouver on July 11, 2024, at the age of 71.

Wagner taught at the University of British Columbia School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture (SALA) for 24 years and served as Chair of the Architecture Program from 2009 to 2012.

“His intellectual passion for modernism and various avatars of the contemporary city, from innovative high-density housing to the ideological implication of urban form...