Interview with Paul Turner : Stanford Urban Studies at 50 Oral History Project

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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.

Type of resource	sound recording-nonmusical, text, still image
Extent	1 audio file; 1 text file; 1 photograph
Place	Stanford (Calif.)
Publisher	Stanford Historical Society
Date created	August 11, 2020
Language	English
Digital origin	born digital

Interviewee	Turner, Paul Venable
Creator	Turner, Paul Venable
Interviewer	Kahan, Michael
Interviewer	Meurice, Nova
Publisher	Stanford Historical Society

Subject	Turner, Paul Venable
Subject	Cities and towns > Study and teaching
Subject	Architects
Genre	Interview

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.
Transcript	Title Transcript
Finding Aid	Title Urban Studies at 50
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/rb278jz8998
Location	SC1580
Repository	Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Urban Studies at 50

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