ABSTRACT
Teachers of landscape architecture today may well have been taught by professors and lecturers who were themselves profoundly influenced by Christopher Tunnard. His early writings and brief teaching career at Harvard discredited earlier modes of thought and promulgated a Modernist mindset.1 This is recognisable in its focus on the future, and privileged individual genius. Tunnard afterwards ploughed another furrow in urban planning, and the loss of his intellectual leadership of landscape architecture in the English-speaking world had repercussions on a whole range of issues. Not the least of these is that today practising landscape architects are often ignorant of the history of their own profession, and few have much perspective on the complex and nuanced intellectual traditions in which they work.
