ABSTRACT
Tyrwhitt turned 50 in May 1955, and entered a new, highly productive phase of her career. As Assistant Professor of City Planning at Harvard, she helped Sert to introduce a new urban design curriculum at GSD, which involved team-teaching cross-disciplinary classes. She introduced her Geddessian line of modern planning thought into their content as well as into broader discussions on urban design sponsored by the school. She also helped produce illustrated publications that translated university-based discourse about the forces shaping the urban environment for a general readership. Tyrwhitt played a major role in a partnership between Harvard and the UN to establish a new school of planning in Indonesia, thereby facilitating the internationalization of the university and planning education. In a parallel effort on behalf of Doxiadis, from her base at Harvard she launched an information service to support his staff and the growing number of consultants working in the developing world, a domain of practice spurred by the growing role of the UN in the field of human settlements. And she continued to devote as much of her time as possible to Giedion’s publications. One theme informing all of those undertakings was the creative dialogue between and cross-fertilization of Eastern and Western social-aesthetic ideals.
