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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823237603321

Autore

Jacques David

Titolo

Landscape modernism renounced : the career of Christopher Tunnard (1910-1979) / / David Jacques and Jan Woudstra ; with contributions by Elen Deming ... [et al.] ; with foreword by Christopher (Rusty) Tunnard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-136-61633-0

1-283-60609-7

9786613918543

1-136-61634-9

0-203-51404-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WoudstraJan

Disciplina

712.092

Soggetti

Landscape architects - British Columbia

Modern movement (Architecture)

Landscape design - England - History - 20th century

Landscape design - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"In association with the Landscape Design Trust."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table ofContents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface; Foreword; 1 Prolegomena; Part I Biography; 2 Britain; 3 America; Part II Landscape and urbanism; 4 A technique for the twentieth century; 5 Landscape design; 6 Civic art and design; 7 From Wisley to A World with a View: the metamorphosis of a landscape architect; Annex A: Brief biographical facts; Annex B: Tunnard's principal landscape designs; Annex C: Tunnard's writings; Annex D: Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Before the Second World War landscape architect Christopher Tunnard was the first author on Modernism in Landscape in the English language, but later became alarmed by the destructive forces of Post-war reconstruction. Between the 1950s and the 1970s he was in the forefront of the movement to save the city, becoming an acclaimed author sympathetic to preservation.Ironically it was the Modernist ethos



that he had so fervently advocated before the war that was the justification for the dismemberment of great cities by officials, engineers and planners. This was not the first tim