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Christopher Tunnard (1910, Victoria, British Columbia – 1979) was a Canadian-born landscape architect, garden designer, city-planner, and author of ''Gardens in the Modern Landscape'' (1938). He was the cousin of the British surrealist artist John Tunnard (1900–71). ==Biography== Born and educated in Canada, where his Lincolnshire-born father had moved as a young man, in 1929 Tunnard went to England and obtained a Diploma from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1930. From 1932-1935 he worked as a garden designer for Percy Cane, an exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement. He then embarked on a European tour, becoming interested in avant-garde art and architecture. In 1936, he started his own practice for landscape architecture in London. His noted landscape projects include his landscape architecture for Serge Chermayeff's house Bentley Wood at Halland, Sussex;〔(Modernism ), History of Environmental Design course notes, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape〕 and for his modification of existing 18th-century gardens at the circular Art Deco St Ann's Hill House in Chertsey designed by Raymond McGrath, where Tunnard lived for a short time with his then partner, the stockbroker GL Schlesinger.〔.〕 He wrote a series of articles for the Architectural Review, later re-published as a manifesto, ''Gardens in the Modern Landscape''. In 1939, he designed the garden for the "All-Europe House" at the Ideal Home Exhibition, Earls Court.〔.〕 In the same year he emigrated to America, at the invitation of Walter Gropius, to teach at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. From 1938 to 1943 Tunnard taught at Harvard. He was drafted into the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943 and after the war took a job teaching city planning at Yale. Enjoying the work, he did little further garden design, and reached the post of professor and chairman of the department of city planning. His publications in this area include articles such as ''America's super-cities''〔.〕 and a number of books on city design in the U.S. The best known may be ''Man-made America: Chaos or Control?'' (1963), by Tunnard and Boris Pushkarev,〔.〕 which won the 1964 National Book Award in Science, Philosophy and Religion.〔.〕〔.〕 In 1969 Yale disciplined him by demotion for sending out unauthorized admission letters to prospective students, following an unresolved departmental dispute.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christopher Tunnard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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