Victor Alfred Lundy
Leader of Sarasota modernist architecture.
Victor Alfred Lundy is an American architect. An exemplar of modernist architecture, he was one of the leaders of the Sarasota School of Architecture. Lundy was born in 1923 in New York City. He served in the U.S. 26th Infantry Division during World War II. In 1942, Lundy was 19, studying to be an architect in New York City. Excited about rebuilding Europe post-war, he and other college men enlisted in the Army Special Training Program (ASTP). After the conclusion of World War II, Lundy completed a degree in architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Winning the prestigious Rotch Traveling Scholarship allowed him to travel abroad. In 1954, Lundy opened an architectural firm in Sarasota, Florida. In 1967, the American Institute of Architects named him a Fellow--one of its highest honors. Lundy moved to Houston, Texas, in the 1970s. Among the notable buildings designed by this master artist-architect are churches with soaring roof lines, the Sarasota Chamber of Commerce, the U.S. Tax Court, and the U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka.
Artworks by this artist (209 total)
- Burt 1944
- House 1944
- Cracking the Zeigfried, line, air raid over Germany Seen on a morning hike. 1944
- First Unitarian Church, Westport, Connecticut 1959
- Haystack 1944
- Waiting 1944
- Finey Towery 1944
- Residence for Mr. and Mrs. Victor Lundy, 701 Mulberry Lane, Bellaire, Texas, Bedroom 1987
- Church of the Resurrection, East Harlem, New York, North and west elevations 1962
- Fontainebleau 1949
- Residence for Mr. and Mrs. Victor Lundy, 701 Mulberry Lane, Bellaire, Texas, East elevation 1962
- New York World’s Fair, 1964-1965, Space flower exhibition structures 1962
- Barn 1944
- United States Embassy, Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Church in Crasville. 1944
- Sunset – first night out 1944
- Before pay day Shooting craps for cigarettes. 1944
- Residence, Houston, Texas 2002
- San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, Italy, Entrance detail 1975
- Air-supported exhibition building for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission 1960