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Victor A. Lundy

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Victor Lundy
Born(1923-02-01)February 1, 1923
New York City, U.S.
DiedNovember 4, 2024(2024-11-04) (aged 101)
OccupationArchitect
Awards
Buildings
DesignSarasota School of Architecture
The United States Tax Court Building in Washington, D.C.

Victor Alfred Lundy (February 1, 1923 – November 4, 2024) was 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.

Lundy was born in New York City on February 1, 1923.[6] He was honored by the Smithsonian on his 90th birthday in 2013.[8] A film on his life and work, entitled "Victor Lundy: Sculptor of Space" was premiered by the GSA on February 25, 2014.[8][9]

Lundy turned 100 in February 2023, and died on November 4, 2024, at the age of 101.[10]

Work

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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)

World War II Sketches by Victor A. Lundy

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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 104th Infantry Division, a sub-division of the 26th Infantry division of the US Army. He trained at Fort Jackson, before sailing from New York departing on 27 August 1944, to Cherbourg, arriving on 7 September 1944. He spent time in Normandy in September before moving to the Western Front by November.

He drew out his experiences from training at Fort Jackson (May 1944) to his journey across the Atlantic and then his time in France. 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."[32]

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

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References

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  1. ^ "Recreation Award Citations" (PDF). Progressive Architecture. January 1956. p. 93. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
  2. ^ "Wins Award For Silver Springs Buildings". Ocala Star-Banner. January 20, 1956. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
  3. ^ "Silver Springs Buildings". Ocala Star-Banner. January 23, 1956. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
  4. ^ a b "AIA Honors Springs And Victor Lundy". Ocala Star-Banner. April 26, 1959. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
  5. ^ a b c "Medals and Awards" (PDF). American Architects Directory (3rd ed.). R. R. BOWKER COMPANY. 1970. p. xli. ISBN 0-8352-0281-X. Retrieved July 4, 2023. WARM MINERAL SPRINGS INN, Venice, Florida, Victor A. Lundy (1958) . . . FLORIDA'S SILVER SPRINGS (TOURIST CENTER), Silver Springs, Florida, Victor A. Lundy (1959) . . . ST. PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH, Fellowship Hall, Sara-sota, Florida, Victor A. Lundy (1960)
  6. ^ a b c d e "Biographical Section [L]" (PDF). American Architects Directory (3rd ed.). R. R. BOWKER COMPANY. 1970. p. 564. ISBN 0-8352-0281-X. Retrieved July 4, 2023. LUNDY, VICTOR ALFRED. . . . b. N.Y.C, Feb. 1, 23. . . . Prin. Wks: Traveling exhib. bldg. (air supported structure), U.S. Atomic Energy Cmn, Latin Am, 60; First Unitarian Church of Fairfield Co, Westport, Conn, 63; Int. Bus. Mach. Garden State Off. Bldg, Cranford, N.J, 64; Univ. Methodist Chapel for the Wesley Found, Fla. State Univ, 70; St. Bernard's Sch, Gladstone, N.J, 70. Hon. Awards: Gold medal for the air-supported exhib. bldg. & exhib. for the U.S. Atomic Energy Cmn, Buenos Aires Sesquicentennial Int. Exhib, 60; AIA award of merit for St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Sarasota, Fla, 60; U.S. Dept. of State grant, cultural exchange prog, served as U.S. Specialist-Archit. in U.S.S.R. in connection with U.S. Info. Agency exhib, Arch. U.S.A. 65; AIA first honor award for First Unitarian Congregational Church, Hartford, Conn, 65; AIA award of merit for Church of the Resurrection, East Harlem Protestant Parish, N.Y.C, 66.
  7. ^ "Medals and Awards" (PDF). American Architects Directory (3rd ed.). R. R. BOWKER COMPANY. 1970. p. xlii. ISBN 0-8352-0281-X. Retrieved July 4, 2023. CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION, EAST HARLEM PROTESTANT PARISH, New York, New York, Victor A. Lundy (1966)
  8. ^ a b Anonymous. "Architect Victor Lundy at the Smithsonian". Smithsonian Institution Archives.
  9. ^ trailer Youtube
  10. ^ "Sarasota architect Victor Lundy dies at age 101". Your Observer. 5 November 2024. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
  11. ^ a b c d "Victor Lundy's Soaring Rooflines". 6 February 2010.
  12. ^ a b c "Sarasota School of (Commercial) Architecture". Gator Preservationist. February 25, 2013. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
  13. ^ "About South Gate". South Gate Community Association. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
  14. ^ a b c "Victor Lundy honored at Ocala attraction". Sarasota Journal. May 27, 1957. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
  15. ^ Cook, David (November 17, 2002). "Visitors flock to Silver Springs in '57". Ocala Star-Banner. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
  16. ^ a b c "Lundy was part of the 'Sarasota School' | Sarasota History Alive!". www.sarasotahistoryalive.com. Archived from the original on 2014-01-06.
  17. ^ "Sarasota History Timeline".
  18. ^ Bubil, Harold. "FLORIDA BUILDINGS I LOVE: No. 50: Herron House, 1957, Venice". Sarasota Herald. Retrieved October 17, 2018.
  19. ^ "St. Paul's Lutheran Church". homepages.bluffton.edu.[unreliable source?]
  20. ^ "Groundbreaking Set At St. Paul's Church". Sarasota Journal. January 9, 1959. p. 22. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
  21. ^ Bubil, Harold (April 18, 2018). "No. 71: St. Paul Lutheran Church, Sarasota". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
  22. ^ Higher Power 1960 P/A Award: First Unitarian Church, Victor Lundy ARCHITECT February 10, 2009 Past Progressives
  23. ^ History Ski Apache website
  24. ^ The Sierra Blanca Lodge image Flickr
  25. ^ "Cornell University - Intypes". intypes.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
  26. ^ "The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair - Brass Rail snack bars".
  27. ^ The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945-1976 by John Harwood page 133
  28. ^ Dobson, Byron (December 22, 2015). "Chapel of the Upper Room at FSU to be demolished". Tallahassee Democrat. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
  29. ^ Berkeley, Ellen Perry (January 1956). "SCULPTURE IN SPACE" (PDF). Architecture Forum. p. 46. Retrieved July 4, 2023.
  30. ^ "Aspen Modern II: The Past is the Future - PreservationNation Blog". blog.preservationnation.org. Archived from the original on 2013-07-20.
  31. ^ a b McCullar, Michael (October 10, 1987). "High rise says hello to the city". Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved August 4, 2018.
  32. ^ Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, World War Two sketches by Victor Lundy

Further reading

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