The Legacy of Raymond Unwin: A Human Pattern for Planning

234, [6] pages. Chronology of sir Raymond Unwin (1863-1940) Footnotes. Illustrations. Index. The dust jacket has some wear, soiling, tears, chips, and is price clipped. Red and black marks on the bottom edge. Walter Littlefield Creese, American architecture educator, who was born on December 19, 1919 in Danvers, Massachusetts, United States. Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude, Brown U., 1941; Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1945; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1950. He was a Tutor, teaching fellow, Harvard, 1944-1945; instructor, Wellesley College, 1945; from instructor to professor, Hite The Art Institute of Chicago, U. Louisville, 1946-1958; acting head, Hite The Art Institute of Chicago, U. Louisville, 1953-1954, 56-57; professor architecture, University of Illinois, 1958-1963; dean, School Architecture and Allied Arts, U. Oregon, 1963-1968; professor, chairman division architectural history and preservation, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1968-1987. Visiting summer professor Harvard University, 1961. Consultant history sites and buildings National.Park Service, 1972-1979, National Council Architectural Registration Boards., 1984-1986. Sir Raymond Unwin (2 November 1863 29 June 1940) was a prominent and influential English engineer, architect and town planner, with an emphasis on improvements in working class housing. In their various writings, including their book The Art of Building a Home (1901), Barry Parker and Unwin aimed to popularize the Arts and Crafts Movement, and as a result of their success thousands of homes were built on their pattern in the early part of the 20th century. A notable example of one of their earliest collaborations at Clayton, Staffordshire, is dated to 1899, and was originally called the Goodfellow House after the man who commissioned it. Parker and Unwin were involved in designing many of the interior fittings, which remain in the house to this day, and the initial layout of the large gardens. Goodfellow sold the house in 1926 to Colley Shorter who ran the nearby pottery works of Wilkinson's and Newport. He renamed it Chetwynd House and when he married his star designer Clarice Cliff in 1940, she moved into the house and lived there until 1972. It is her association that has made the house particularly famous since. In 1902 Parker and Unwin were asked to design a model village at New Earswick near York for Joseph and Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, and the following year they were given the opportunity to take part in the creation of Letchworth (loosely based on the Utopian plan of Ebenezer Howard), when the First Garden City Company asked them to submit a plan. In 1903 they were involved with the "Cottages Near a Town Exhibit" for the Northern Art Workers Guild of Manchester. In 1904 after their plan was adopted they opened a second office at Baldock. In 1905 Henrietta Barnett asked them to plan the new garden suburb at Hampstead, now known as Hampstead Garden Suburb. In 1907, Ealing Tenants Limited, a progressive cooperative in west London, appointed him to take forward the development of Brentham garden suburb. Unwin joined the Local Government Board in December 1914. In 1915 he was seconded to the Ministry of Munitions to design the villages of Gretna and Eastriggs and supervise others. From 1917 he had an influential role at the Tudor Walters Committee on working-class housing whose report was published in 1918, the year in which he was appointed Chief Architect to the newly formed Ministry of Health. That post had evolved into the Chief Technical Officer for Housing and Town Planning by the time of his retirement in November 1928. His demonstration during the Great War of the principles of building homes rapidly and economically whilst maintaining satisfactory standards for gardens, family privacy and internal spaces, gave him great influence over the Tudor Walters Committee and hence, indirectly, over much inter-war public housing. This report marked Unwin's definitive break.…