Martin Meyerson and Jaqueline Tyrwhitt and the Global Exchange of Planning Ideas

Abstract

This article examines one facet of Martin Meyerson’s internationalism, by tracing the work he did with the English town planner, educator, and editor Jaqueline Tyrwhitt. Their professional association began in 1948, when Meyerson was the editor of the journal TASK. They became collaborators while both were on the faculty of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (GSD). They remained colleagues as participants in the ten annual international conferences—the Delos Symposia—hosted by Constantinos Doxiadis, beginning in1963. Consideration of their association spanning four decades illuminates the increasingly international dimension of Meyerson’s work, which parallels the internationalization of urban planning and design as a discipline, within an increasingly internationalized university.