George Wagner is the current Chair of Architecture, teaches design studios and seminars in the Master of Architecture Program, was the coordinator of UBC Architecture Tokyo 2010 as well as for UBC Architecture Tokyo 2008, 2006 and 2004. Research interests include: architecture and modernism, the North American City, urban form and its ideological implications, contemporary Japanese architecture and urbanism. His writing has been published in journals (Harvard Architecture, Perspecta, Bauwelt, AA Files, Canadian Architect, Harvard Design Magazine) and books (Architecture and Feminism, Free University Berlin, Stan Douglas, Hitoshi Abe: on-the-spot). Professor Wagner is also the editor of several books: Tokyo from Vancouver, Thom Mayne:The Sixth Street House, Stanley Saitowitz: A House in the Transvaal, and Barkow Leibinger Architects: Werkbericht 1993-2001 Workreport. Before joining the Faculty of UBC Architecture Professor Wagner taught at Rhode Island School of Design, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Yale University, Cornell University and Rice University.