ABSTRACT
By June 1962, when Tyrwhitt reported on urban design education at Harvard at a conference organized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), most of the students enrolled in the Harvard urban design program were architects. Maki was part of a group of young Japanese architects and designers known as the Metabolists, who understood the connection between the roots of modernism and tenets of Japanese aesthetics, and were using them to invent a modern Japanese urbanism and architecture. The idea of regional planning to guide urban growth into a polycentric constellation of compact centers has since been widely accepted as a sustainable pattern of development. Before going on leave from Harvard, Tyrwhitt spent her last weeks occupied with the Urban Design conference the 8th in the series that she had helped Sert launch in 1956 and the last that she organized and documented.
