BArch GradDipl(AA) PhD

The architect, urban planner and professor Dr Ian MacBurnie died last Sunday 13 September, aged 60 years old.

Dr MacBurnie, who originally graduated from the AA in 1988 with a GradDipl(AA) in Housing & Urbanism also completed his PhD at the school in 1999 with his thesis The Periphery and the American Dream.

An AA Member for more than 25 years, MacBurnie was an associate professor in the Department of Architectural Science at Ryerson University, Toronto where he was instrumental in founding the gradute programme there.

Canadian publication The Globe and Mail published this obituary on 18 September.

theglobeandmail.com/ianmacburnie