Interview with Paul Turner : Stanford Urban Studies at 50 Oral History Project
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In this oral history, Paul Turner, the Wattis Professor of Art, Emeritus, recounts his longtime involvement in the Urban Studies Program. Turner discusses shaping and co-teaching the program’s junior seminar, eventually titled Utopia and Reality in Modern Urban Planning; early communications between Urban Studies and the Art Department regarding support for interdepartmental programs; his role as the university’s sole architectural historian and the only trained architect on the faculty; and the impact of the discontinuation of Stanford’s architectural program on Urban Studies. Turner also reflects on the relationship between his teaching and his research, including the influence of Urban Studies on his pivotal work Campus: An American Planning Tradition.
Description
Type of resource | text |
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Extent | 1 text file |
Place | Stanford (Calif.) |
Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Date created | August 11, 2020 |
Language | English |
Digital origin | born digital |
Creators/Contributors
Interviewee | Turner, Paul Venable | |
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Creator | Turner, Paul Venable | |
Interviewer | Kahan, Michael | |
Interviewer | Meurice, Nova | |
Publisher | Stanford Historical Society |
Subjects
Subject | Turner, Paul Venable |
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Subject | Cities and towns > Study and teaching |
Subject | Architects |
Genre | Interview |
Bibliographic information
Biographical profile | Paul V. Turner was trained as both an architect and an art historian. He taught the history of architecture at Stanford from 1971 to 2006, offering a broad range of courses to undergraduates and graduate students, from a survey of world architecture to courses on Baroque, 19th- and 20th-century European and American architecture and urbanism, and seminars on various subjects. His publications include works on the architects Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Joseph Ramée, and the history of the American campus. His book Campus, An American Planning Tradition, won the Society of Architectural Historians’ Hitchcock Prize, for the best book on architecture in the year 1984. |
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Finding Aid |
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Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/gj297km8535 |
Location | SC1580 |
Repository | Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- The materials are open for research use and may be used freely for non-commercial purposes with an attribution. For commercial permission requests, please contact the Stanford University Archives (universityarchives@stanford.edu).
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Collection
Urban Studies at 50
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