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Christopher Tunnard

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Arthur Coney Tunnard (1910 in Victoria, British Columbia – 1979), later known as Christopher Tunnard, was a Canadian-born landscape architect, garden designer, city-planner, and author of Gardens in the Modern Landscape (1938). [1]

50 relations: Architectural Review, Art Deco, Arts and Crafts movement, Avant-garde, Baillie Scott, Birtles Hall, Boston, Lincolnshire, British Columbia, Canadians, Chertsey, Crazy paving, Dan Kiley, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, East Hoathly with Halland, Edwin Lutyens, Fletcher Steele, Functionalism (architecture), Garden designer, Garrett Eckbo, Geoffrey Jellicoe, Gertrude Jekyll, Grade II* listed buildings in Runnymede (district), Harvard Graduate School of Design, Ideal Home Show, James C. Rose, John Tunnard, Landscape architect, Lawrence Halprin, Lincolnshire, Modernism, Narcissus (plant), National Book Award, National Book Foundation, Over Alderley, Percy Stephen Cane, Pergola, Polemic, Raymond McGrath, Royal Canadian Air Force, Royal Horticultural Society, Serge Chermayeff, Statue, Sundial, Sussex, Thomas Church (landscape architect), Urban planning, Victoria, British Columbia, Walter Gropius, Westminster School of Art, Yale University.

Architectural Review

The Architectural Review is a monthly international architectural magazine.

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Art Deco

Art Deco, sometimes referred to as Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. Art Deco influenced the design of buildings, furniture, jewelry, fashion, cars, movie theatres, trains, ocean liners, and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners.

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Arts and Crafts movement

The Arts and Crafts movement was an international movement in the decorative and fine arts that began in Britain and flourished in Europe and North America between about 1880 and 1920, emerging in Japan (the Mingei movement) in the 1920s.

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Avant-garde

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.

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Baillie Scott

Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott (23 October 1865 – 10 February 1945) was an English architect and artist.

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Birtles Hall

Birtles Hall is a country house in the parish of Over Alderley, Cheshire, England.

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Boston, Lincolnshire

Boston is a town and small port in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England, approximately 100 miles (160 km) north of London.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.

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Chertsey

Chertsey is a town in the Runnymede borough of Surrey, England on the right bank of the River Thames where it is met by a corollary, the Abbey River and a tributary, the River Bourne or Chertsey Bourne.

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Crazy paving

Crazy paving is a means of hard-surfacing used outdoors, most frequently in gardens.

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Dan Kiley

Daniel Urban Kiley (2 September 1912 – 21 February 2004) was an American landscape architect in the modernist style.

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Earls Court Exhibition Centre

Earls Court Exhibition Centre was an internationally renowned exhibition, conference and events venue in London that originally opened in 1887 and was built in 1937 in its most recent art moderne style exterior.

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East Hoathly with Halland

East Hoathly with Halland is a civil parish in the Wealden District of East Sussex, England.

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Edwin Lutyens

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.

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Fletcher Steele

Fletcher Steele (June 7, 1885 – July 16, 1971) was an American landscape architect credited with designing and creating over 700 gardens from 1915 to the time of his death.

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Functionalism (architecture)

In architecture, functionalism is the principle that buildings should be designed based solely on the purpose and function of the building.

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Garden designer

A garden designer is someone who designs the plan and features of gardens, either as an amateur or professional.

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Garrett Eckbo

Garrett Eckbo (November 28, 1910 – May 14, 2000) was an American landscape architect notable for his seminal 1950 book Landscape for Living.

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Geoffrey Jellicoe

Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (8 October 1900 – 17 July 1996) was an English architect, town planner, landscape architect, garden designer, lecturer and author.

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Gertrude Jekyll

Gertrude Jekyll (29 November 1843 – 8 December 1932) was a British horticulturist, garden designer, artist, and writer.

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Grade II* listed buildings in Runnymede (district)

There are over 20,000 Grade II* listed buildings in England.

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Harvard Graduate School of Design

The Harvard Graduate School of Design (also known as The GSD) is a professional graduate school at Harvard University, located at Gund Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Ideal Home Show

The Ideal Home Show (formerly called the Ideal Home Exhibition) is an annual event in London held at Olympia, London.

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James C. Rose

James C. Rose (1913–1991) was a prominent landscape architect and author of the twentieth century.

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John Tunnard

John Samuel Tunnard (7 May 1900 – 12 December 1971) was an English Modernist designer and painter.

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Landscape architect

A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture.

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Lawrence Halprin

Lawrence Halprin (July 1, 1916 – October 25, 2009) was an American landscape architect, designer and teacher.

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Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in east central England.

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Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Narcissus (plant)

Narcissus is a genus of predominantly spring perennial plants of the Amaryllidaceae (amaryllis) family.

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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National Book Foundation

The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America".

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Over Alderley

Over Alderley is a civil parish in the Borough of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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Percy Stephen Cane

Percival Stephen Cane (1881–1976) was an English garden designer and writer.

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Pergola

A pergola is a garden feature forming a shaded walkway, passageway, or sitting area of vertical posts or pillars that usually support cross-beams and a sturdy open lattice, often upon which woody vines are trained.

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Polemic

A polemic is contentious rhetoric that is intended to support a specific position by aggressive claims and undermining of the opposing position.

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Raymond McGrath

Raymond McGrath (7 March 1903 – 23 December 1977) was an Australian-born architect, illustrator, printmaker and interior designer who for the greater part of his career was Principal Architect for the Office of Public Works in Ireland.

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Royal Canadian Air Force

The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF; Aviation royale canadienne, ARC) is the air force of Canada.

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Royal Horticultural Society

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, is the UK's leading gardening charity.

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Serge Chermayeff

Serge Ivan Chermayeff (born Sergei Ivanovich Issakovich; Сергей Ива́нович Иссако́вич; 8 October 1900 – 8 May 1996) was a Russian-born British architect, industrial designer, writer, and co-founder of several architectural societies, including the American Society of Planners and Architects.

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Statue

A statue is a sculpture, representing one or more people or animals (including abstract concepts allegorically represented as people or animals), free-standing (as opposed to a relief) and normally full-length (as opposed to a bust) and at least close to life-size, or larger.

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Sundial

A sundial is a device that tells the time of day when there is sunlight by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky.

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Sussex

Sussex, from the Old English Sūþsēaxe (South Saxons), is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.

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Thomas Church (landscape architect)

Thomas Dolliver Church (April 27, 1902 – August 30, 1978), also known by Tommy, was a renowned and innovative 20th century landscape architect based in California.

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Urban planning

Urban planning is a technical and political process concerned with the development and design of land use in an urban environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks.

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Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria, the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, is on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast.

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Walter Gropius

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.

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Westminster School of Art

The Westminster School of Art was an art school in Westminster, London.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Tunnard

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