Mumford Will Start Series Of Lectures Tomorrow Night

Lewis Mum ford, noted critic and author, will give a series of six free, public lectures at Harvard University this month on "The Backgrounds of American Architecture," beginning tomorrow night at New Lecture Hall, at 8 o'clock. The lectures are jointly sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Design and by the Harvard Committee on Extra-curricular Study of American Civilization.

Mr. Mumford is widely known as author of a series of books in architecture and city planning. In architectural criticism he has emphasized the identification of social and architectural values. He helped found the Regional Planning Association of America, was co-founder of the Housing Study Guild, and has served on various public boards in New York