Christopher Tunnard

Christopher Tunnard Arthur Coney Tunnard (published as Christopher Tunnard, July 7, 1910 – February 13, 1979) was a Canadian-born landscape architect, garden designer, Urban planner city-planner, and author of essays and books. Leaving Canada in 1929, he was educated and worked in England from 1929 to 1939, emigrated to the United States in 1939, and served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. Tunnard, with his co‐author Boris Pushkarev, won the 1964 National Book Award in the category of science, philosophy and religion for their 1963 book Man-Made America: Chaos or Control? An Inquiry to Selected Problems of Design in the Urbanized Landscape, published by Yale University Press. Quotes The garden has always been subject to two main influences—the outer influence from the landscape and the inner from the house. Garden into Landscape—I. Gardens in the Modern Landscape Gardens in the Modern Landscape: A Facsimile of the Revised 1948 Edition Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture University of Pennsylvania Press 2014 9780812290042 https://books.google.com/books/about/Gardens_in_the_Modern_Landscape.html?id=gwwSBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA126 126–133 (essay first published in 1938 in The Architectural Review; 208 pages; quote from p. 126) The recent obituaries of William J. Wilgus Colonel William Wilgus gave a measure of tribute to his engineering innovations at Grand Central Terminal Grand Central. It was undoubtedly he who conceived of tracks, bridges and buildings all in a single structural entity; the double-deck track fan to save space and the loop connection to circulate the trains. It was he who worked out all the details with the first official architects, Reed and Stem Reed & Stem, but to these winners of the competion for the new station goes the credit for the device for looping Park Avenue on "exterior circumferential elevated driveways" instead of through the centre of the station athwart the concourse as Wilgus had suggested. The City of Man New York Charles Scribner 1953 318 (424 pages; 1st part of quote; 2nd part of quote; last part of quote) It was Andrew Mellon who spurred the design of Federal Triangle the Triangle, bringing Edward H. Bennett from Chicago to plan his last great triumph in the late 1920s. The Modern American City Van Nostrand Reinhold 1968 https://books.google.com/books?id=YK7uf7zstJIC&q=bennett+chicago 73 Quotes about Christopher Tunnard Named to the Yale faculty in 1945 as assistant professor of Urban planning city planning, he eventually became director of Yale's graduate course in |city planning when it was initiated in 1950 and which he directed for the next decade. In 1962 he became professor of city planning and in 1965 he was named chairman of the department.In September 1969, as the result of a major reorganization of Yale's School of Art and Architecture, which split the school into two divisions, Professor Tunnard was appointed director of studies in planning, and remained in that post until his retirement in 1975. Joan Riddell Cook Joan Cook, Obituary. Christopher Tunnard, Authority on City Planning Taught at Yale February 15, 1979 The New York Times p. 19, Section D https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/15/archives/christopher-tunnard-authority-on-city-planning-taught-at-yale.html External links Christopher Tunnard Biography The Cultural Landscape Foundation March 7, 2024 https://www.tclf.org/christopher-tunnard-biography Category:1910 births Category:1979 deaths Category:Architects from Canada Category:Architects from the United States Category:Designers from Canada Category:Designers from the United States Category:Harvard University faculty Category:Non-fiction authors from Canada Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Yale University faculty