Landscape Modernism Renounced: The Career of Christopher Tunnard (1910-1979)

by David Jacques and Jan Woudstra

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415497205
• ISBN13: 9780415497206
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"