David Baird, Architect, has spent three
decades practicing architecture and directing
multi-disciplinary teams consisting of
Architects, Engineers and other Experts. Projects
include the Country Music Hall of Fame and
Museum, Vanderbilt’s Ingram
Center for the
Performing Arts, the Tennessee
Aquarium Imax
Center and the Cumberland Heights
Master Plan....
David Baird, Architect, has spent three
decades practicing architecture and directing
multi-disciplinary teams consisting of
Architects, Engineers and other Experts. Projects
include the Country Music Hall of Fame and
Museum, Vanderbilt’s Ingram
Center for the
Performing Arts, the Tennessee
Aquarium Imax
Center and the Cumberland Heights
Master Plan.
David Baird’s unique ability to seamlessly integrate creative expression, analytical thinking and real world solutions enables his clients and project teams to envision and make reality buildings of superior aesthetic and operational quality.
David uses state of the art computer
visualization, physical models and hand sketches to
explore and communicate ideas.
David attained his Architecture degree from
the University of
Tennessee where he was
awarded the Chancellor’s Citation for
Extraordinary Promise. After graduation he worked as a designer with the internationally
acclaimed Architect Kevin Roche (1982 Pritzker Prize winner), on museums, corporate
headquarters, and custom furniture and lighting designs such as the Metropolitan Museum,
Continental Oil and Union Carbide Headquarters.
David was one of the first Architects in Tennessee to be accredited by the U.S. Green
Building Council for Sustainable/Green Design
(LEED-AP). He has also studied Real
Estate Finance and Development through the
N.A.R. and the Urban Land Institute. David
has participated in the creation of the “Plan
of Nashville” and Nashville’s implementation of public art projects.
David’s contemporary lighting designs have won national and international awards, were distributed by American, French and Japanese manufacturers, and have been exhibited in museums, galleries and trade shows in the US, Italy, France and Japan. David’s hand drawn lighting design illustrations are in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt National Museum of Design Smithsonian Institute. David has taught and lectured on Architecture and Interior Design at various universities in Tennessee and California.
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Private, Sole Proprietor employees, Architecture industryUniversity of Tennessee, Tennessee, United States
Other Professional degree, 1978.
Areas of study: Architecture
Awards: Chancellors Citation for Extraordinary Promise
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