Background
Tunnard, Christopher was born on July 7, 1910 in Victoria, B.C., Canada. Son of Christopher Coney and Madeliene (Kingscote) Tunnard.
Tunnard, Christopher was born on July 7, 1910 in Victoria, B.C., Canada. Son of Christopher Coney and Madeliene (Kingscote) Tunnard.
Educated St. Michaels School, Victoria College, U. B.C., Westminster Technology Institute, London England. Master of Arts, Yale, 1962. D.Fine Arts, Union College, 1964.
Doctor of Laws, University Victoria, 1970.
Came to the United States, 1939, naturalized, 1949. Designer, P.S. Cane (site planners), 1932-1934. Conductor professional office as designer, site planner, St. Ann’s Hill, Surrey, England, 1934-1937, London, 1937-1939.
Lecturer landscape architecture, regional planning Graduate School Design Harvard, 1939-1942. Wheelwright fellow architecture Harvard, 1943-1944. Assistant professor city planning Yale, 1945, associate professor, 1948, professor, 1961-1975, professor city planning emeritus, 1975-1979.
Director city planning studies, 1969-1970, director graduate program in city planning, 1950-1960, department chairman city planning, 1966-1969, member United States Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 1967-1969. Chairman, New Haven City Plan Commission, 1960. Guggenheim fellow, 1950. Fulbright fellow, 1956. Architectural Forum (Time, Inc.), 1944-1945.
Served with Royal Canadian Engineers, 1942-1943. Clubs: Century, Yale, Elizabethan.
Married Lydia Evans, June 9, 1945.