Architect and urban planner who, from the late 1940s, served as Sigfried Giedion's translator and editor — the medium, Cameron says, through which Giedion's rough English reached the English-speaking world — and a member of McLuhan's Explorations Group.
Across the dialogues
Giedion's translator and editor — the medium through which his rough English reached the English-speaking world
Tyrwhitt became Giedion's translator and editor — his never-good English the reason the role existed.
"Maybe Giedion's English was never good, and so she became his translator and editor."
From the late 1940s she smoothed the "very rough English" of Giedion's essays — the medium by which his work reached an English readership.
"But then his essays in the 1940s are very rough English. He got Tyrwhitt as his editor and translator."
Recovered as McLuhan's correspondent — the addressee of the 1960 letter whose "global village / global city" line opens the session
The December 1960 letter McLuhan wrote to Tyrwhitt gives the session its keynote — the "global village" as the diagnosis and the "global city" as the task — the citadel/global-city theme the whole dialogue reads out from.
"we live in a global village and the job is to create a global city."
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Giedion's translator and editor from the late 1940s — the medium through which his rough English reached print.