guidance as one tries to extend the garden’s benefits of rest, recreation, and aesethic pleasure to a wider public, in the larger landscape." Walker 150 Moreover, Halprin wanted to study under Tunnard. For his graduate studies, he went to the GSD at Harvard and under Tunnard and other influential men, Halprin studied landscape architecture. Later, with Tunnard, Halprin produced an issue of Task magazine. Walker, Peter, and Melanie Simo. The functional garden Functionalism derives from a doctrine of "fit for purpose." Is the object made fit its purpose? From this arises a more simple and clear way of planning, and not embellished with materials or things not fit for the purpose. For Tunnad, the creation of modern houses lacked modern surroundings, which he wanted to create. Flowers are not created to just be created but to be enjoyed by children. Gardens are not necessarily symmetrical because there is no need outside of simply being symmetrical. Tunnard cites the Swedish Garden Architect's Associations’ paper as describing this new garden as Fletcher Steele, noted landscape architect, agrees with Tunnard's views of modern building design, but pointed out that Tunnard's views as being another style and not a possible universal conception. City planning Tunnard's latter years were spent away from landscape architecture. He taught at Yale University for city planning, became more focused on preserving historic buildings, and wrote many books on urban planning. Eckbo stated that landscape architecture lost a great man when Tunnard went into city planning. Books 1928: Gardens in the Modern Landscape 1953 The City of Man 1955 American Skyline 1963 Man-Made America: Chaos or Control? 1968 The Modern American City 1978 A World With a View See also Landscape design history Bibliography . References . External links Christopher Tunnard papers (MS 1070). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. 1910 births 1979 deaths British landscape architects Canadian landscape architects Landscape or garden designers Writers from Victoria, British Columbia National Book Award winners Harvard Graduate School of Design faculty Royal Canadian Air Force personnel of World War II Yale University faculty Canadian gay writers Canadian garden writers 20th-century LGBT people