George Burdett Ford | |
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Born | June 24, 1879
Clinton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | August 15, 1930
New York City, New York, U.S. | (aged 51)
George Burdett Ford (June 24, 1879 – August 15, 1930) was an American architect and urban planner.
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Ford was born June 24, 1879, in Clinton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1899, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1901, and studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris from 1903 to 1907.
He was an architect and planner with George B. Post & Sons in New York from 1907 to 1917. In 1913, while employed by Post, he established the Technical Advisory Corporation (TAC) with engineer Ernest P. Goodrich, the first private urban planning consulting firm in the United States. Ford was also a reserve major in the U.S. Army and consulting architect for the city of New York, he later became a consultant for the War Department.
In May 1918, he was a representative in France for the American Red Cross and responsible for the Red Cross reconstruction of war zones in Europe. On May 3, 1918, he was invited by Léon Bourgeois to participate in a meeting in the Senate of the parliamentary group of the invaded regions. [1]
He then worked for the Renaissance of cities
[note 1] on town planning plans for the reconstruction of
Reims and
Soissons between 1919 and 1920.
Ford's project for Reims is submitted to the Higher Commission which, under the Cornudet law, [note 2] is responsible for approving the extension plans. To rebuild the city imagined by Ford, new, modern, healthy, opposing the practical to the beautiful, it would have been necessary to literally level Reims. On May 23, 1920, Ernest Kalas, inspector of the historical excavations of Reims, opposed the Ford plan by publishing a strong criticism; On May 29, this commission refused it and sent it back to the municipality of Reims. André Hallays signs a virulent article against him in the illustration of June 5, 1920. The final version of the plan is finally adopted on August 13, 1920 and will not be applied as a whole. Only a few axes, and the garden cities initially planned outside the hyper-center, bear witness to the innovative character of the project, and its true urban planning logic.
In 1920 Ford served as a consultant to the T. H. Russell Sage Foundation for the development of the New York Regional Plan, served as an advisor to numerous city and regional governing bodies, and was the founder of the journal City Planning .
In 1923 he returned to America and worked at TAC (Technical Advisory Corporation) in New York. He was also an advisor for the urban planning of Manila in 1929 and a teacher at Harvard.
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Died August 13, 1930, at the Doctors' Hospital in New York City, and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery. [2]
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