26. See Alison Hirsch, “Lawrence Halprin: The Choreography of Private Gardens,” Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 27, no. 4 (2007), being a collection of and commentary on Halprin’s drawings and plans of American gardens in the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania. Halprin records both his discovery of Tunnard’s book in Wisconsin (“I realized it was speaking my language”) and his subsequent work under him at Harvard in A Life Spent Changing Places (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011); Halprin also records Tunnard’s “helping” Philip Johnson with his garden, pp. 42–45.
27. These suburban garden ideas are illustrated in Jacques and Woudstra, 37, 39, and 40.
28. See Marc Treib and Dorothée Imbert, Garret Eckbo: Modern Landscape for Living (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 33–38. When Eckbo, Dan Kiley, and James Rose wrote their articles on primeval, rural, and urban environments in Architectural Record (1939–40), Tunnard was referred to as “the English landscapist.”
29. Some of these American designs are discussed and illustrated in Jacques and Woudstra, 165–78.
30. These issues have been scanned at Harvard: http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/45295213.
31. Jacques and Woudstra, 1 and 35–36.
32. Ibid., 235–36, citing the Tunnard Yale archives.
33. From catalog entry for the exhibition “Garden and Landscape,” organized by the Institute of Landscape Architecture and held at the Royal Institute of British Architects. See Jacques and Woudstra, 38ff.
34. Jacques and Woudstra, 218.
35. Neckar, “The Garden in the Modern Landscape,” 144.
36. The first half of Tunnard’s book The City of Man (New York: Scribner’s, 1953) was firmly grounded in history, and he acknowledged a special debt to Henry Hope Reed, a determined nay-sayer on modernism.
GARDENS
IN THE MODERN LANDSCAPE
First edition printed 1938Second (revised) edition printed 1948
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GARDENS
IN THE MODERN LANDSCAPE
By Christopher Tunnard
Associate Professor of City Planning, Yale University
Second (revised) edition with new material on American Gardens, and a note on the Modern Garden by Dean Joseph Hudnut of Harvard University
London: The Architectural Press
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons
CONTENTS
The Grotto. A manifestation of the taste for “Awful Beauty” in the eighteenth-century garden
A Garden Landscape, 1740. Pain’s Hill, Surrey
III. Pictures versus Prospects
A Garden Landscape, 1840. Redleaf, Penshurst
THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRADITION
I. Victorian Ideals
II. Colour and the Cottage Garden
III. Science and Specialization
I. Functional Aspects of Garden Planning
II. Asymmetrical Garden Planning
III. Art and Ornament
Modern Interpretations of Traditional Forms
IV. The Planter’s Eye
Architects’ Plants
I. Gardens in the Modern Landscape
The Garden in the Landscape. A summary of characteristic development over 200 years
II. Community Gardens
III. A Solution for Today
The Minimum Garden
A Garden Landscape in Transition. Claremont, Surrey
IV. The Wider Planning
THE MODERN GARDEN. By Joseph Hudnut
FOREWORD
IT is now ten years since the material in these pages first appeared in The Architectural Review. Very little creative work has been done during the interval owing to the war. The author, like everyone else, has been engaged in other occupations, with little time for reflection on the charm of natural things; but since it is his publisher’s and his own opinion that the book should reappear very much in its original form, a few remarks on conclusions reached during this relatively inactive period may not come amiss.
The opinion expressed in the book that the eighteenth-century invention of landscape gardening was among the most notable