Christopher Tunnard

Arthur Coney Tunnard (published as Christopher Tunnard, July 7, 1910 – February 13, 1979) was a Canadian-born landscape architect, garden designer, 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. pp. 126–133. ISBN 9780812290042.  (essay first published in 1938 in The Architectural Review; 208 pages; quote from p. 126)

• The recent obituaries of Colonel William Wilgus gave a measure of tribute to his engineering innovations at 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 & 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. p. 318.  (424 pages; 1st part of quote; 2nd part of quote; last part of quote)

• It was Andrew Mellon who spurred the design of 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. p. 73. 

Quotes about Christopher Tunnard

• Named to the Yale faculty in 1945 as assistant professor of 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 Cook, (February 15, 1979) "Obituary. Christopher Tunnard, Authority on City Planning Taught at Yale". The New York Times.

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Christopher Tunnard on Wikipedia
• Christopher Tunnard Biography. The Cultural Landscape Foundation (March 7, 2024).