Victor A. Lundy

Victor Alfred Lundy (born February 1, 1923) is an American architect. An exemplar of modernist architecture, he was one of the leaders of the Sarasota School of Architecture. His Warm Mineral Springs Motel, outside Warm Mineral Springs, Florida, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. He was honored by the Smithsonian on his 90th birthday in 2013.[1] A film on his life and work, entitled "Victor Lundy: Sculptor of Space" was premiered by the GSA on February 25, 2014.[1][2]

Victor Lundy
Born (1923-02-01) February 1, 1923
New York City, New York, USA
OccupationArchitect
Buildings
DesignSarasota School of Architecture
The United States Tax Court Building in Washington, D.C.

Missing from the list of works: St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Sanctuary from 1968, next to the Fellowship Hall. It is if poured in place concrete building with a steel cable and wood deck roof.

Work
Frontal view of the United States Tax Court Building which Lundy designed in collaboration with the architectural firm Lyles, Bissett, Carlisle, and Wolff (LBC&W)
  • Drive-In Church, Venice, FL (1954). Demolished.[3]
  • Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce (Pagoda Building), Sarasota, FL (1956)[4]
  • South Gate Community Center, Sarasota, FL (1956)[5]
  • Alta Vista Elementary School, a.k.a. The "Butterfly Wing," Sarasota, FL (1957)[6][7]
  • Joe Barth Insurance Office [today, Murray Homes], Sarasota, FL (1957)[4]
  • Herron House, Venice, FL (1957)[8]
  • Bee Ridge Presbyterian Church, Sarasota, FL (1957)[7]
  • Waldman Building, 533 S. US 301 (1958)[4]
  • Warm Mineral Springs Motel, North Port, FL (1958)
  • St. Paul's Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall, Sarasota, FL (1958)[9]
  • Galloway Furniture Showroom, Sarasota, FL [today, Visionworks] (1959)[3][7]
  • "Bubble Pavilions" for the New York World's Fair of 1964–65 (The Brass Rail Snack Bars)[10]
  • Church of the Resurrection Harlem, New York City (1966) Demolished.[3]
  • First Unitarian Church, Westport, CT (1960)[11]
  • United States Embassy, Colombo, Sri Lanka (1961-1985) Demolished early 2023.
  • Sierra Blanca (New Mexico) Ski Apache Ski Resort Lodge (1961)[12][13]
  • Hillspoint Elementary School, Westport CT (1962)[14]
  • Unitarian Meeting House, Hartford, CT (1964)
  • IBM Garden State Office, Cranford, NJ (1965)[3][15]
  • Lundy Residence in Aspen, Colorado (1972)[16]
  • U.S. Tax Court Building, Washington, D.C. (completed 1974)
  • Austin Centre, Austin, Texas (1986)[17]
  • One Congress Plaza, Austin, Texas (1987)[17]

World War II Sketches by Victor A. Lundy

Lundy is also well known for his World War II Sketches that were donated to the Library of Congress in 2009

In 1942, Lundy was 19, studying to be an architect in New York City. He was enlisted in the Army Specialised Training Program (ASTP). During 1944, he joined the 26th Infantry division of the US Army, and he drew out his experiences from training at Fort Jackson (May 1944) to his journey across the Atlantic and then his time in France, which started in Normandy in September but moved to Western Front by November.

In total, he produced a visual diary with 158 pencil sketches brings to life the wartime experience. Lundy applied his drawing skills to what was around him--training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina; forced marches; men at rest; the PX and tents; New York Harbor; aboard ship in the Atlantic crossing; Cherbourg Harbor; and French villages. Many vivid portraits of fellow soldiers and frontline danger also fill the pages. The sketches cover May to November 1944 when Lundy was wounded, with some gaps where notebooks were lost. The eight surviving sketchbooks are spiral bound and 3 x 5 inches --small enough to fit in a breast pocket. Lundy used black Hardtmuth leads (a drawing pencil) and sketched quickly. "For me, drawing is sort of synonymous with thinking."[18]

Lundy's sketches inspired the following books.

  • Normandy 1944 by Alberto Pérez Rubio of Desperta Ferro Ediciones, a Madrid-based publisher focusing on military history.

See also

References
  1. Anonymous. "Architect Victor Lundy at the Smithsonian". Smithsonian Institution Archives.
  2. trailer Youtube
  3. "Victor Lundy's Soaring Rooflines". 6 February 2010.
  4. "Sarasota School of (Commercial) Architecture". Gator Preservationist. February 25, 2013. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
  5. "About South Gate". South Gate Community Association. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
  6. "Sarasota History Timeline".
  7. "Lundy was part of the 'Sarasota School' | Sarasota History Alive!". www.sarasotahistoryalive.com. Archived from the original on 2014-01-06.
  8. Bubil, Harold. "FLORIDA BUILDINGS I LOVE: No. 50: Herron House, 1957, Venice". Sarasota Herald. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
  9. "St. Paul's Lutheran Church". homepages.bluffton.edu.
  10. "The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair - Brass Rail snack bars".
  11. Higher Power 1960 P/A Award: First Unitarian Church, Victor Lundy ARCHITECT February 10, 2009 Past Progressives
  12. History Ski Apache website
  13. The Sierra Blanca Lodge image Flickr
  14. "Cornell University - Intypes". intypes.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
  15. The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945-1976 by John Harwood page 133
  16. "Aspen Modern II: The Past is the Future - PreservationNation Blog". blog.preservationnation.org. Archived from the original on 2013-07-20.
  17. McCullar, Michael (October 10, 1987). "High rise says hello to the city". Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
  18. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, World War Two sketches by Victor Lundy

Further reading
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