Barry Sampson, 1948-2020

摘要

Barry Sampson, my former partner in the firm Baird Sampson Neuert, died on Saturday, December 5. He is survived by his partner Judi Coburn and their two sons, Benjamin and Martin. Barry was born in 1948 in Oshawa, Ontario, and spent his childhood and youth there, arriving at the University of Toronto in 1967 to commence his education in architecture. I first met Barry the following year, when I joined U of T as a new faculty member. He was never directly my student, but we knew each other at a distance. Then, upon their graduation in 1972, Barry, together with his classmates Joost Bakker, Bruce Kuwabara and John van Nostrand, proposed that they join my fledgling one-person architectural prac- tice. Donald MacKay, who was part of the same cohort at the University at Toronto, joined in 1973. After a few years, the other four left the practice for various reasons, but Barry stayed, and we worked together for the next 30 years.