Victor A. Lundy

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. He first studied at the NYU School of Architecture and Applied Arts. There he was influenced by the school's Beaux-Arts program. After the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, he joined the air force and was then assigned to the Army Specialized Training program. Lundy was wounded in combat yet remained on active duty until October 1945. Once released from military service, he continued his education at Harvard where he studied under masters in the Bauhaus style of Architecture.

He was honored by the Smithsonian on his 90th birthday in 2013. A film on his life and work, entitled "Victor Lundy: Sculptor of Space" was premiered by the GSA on February 25, 2014.

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

Work

Drive-In Church, Venice, FL (1954). Demolished. Silver Springs tourist center [now called Victor Lundy Tourist Center], Silver Springs, Florida (1957) Bee Ridge Presbyterian Church, Sarasota, FL (1957) Waldman Building, 533 S. US 301 (1958) Warm Mineral Springs Motel, North Port, FL (1958) St. Paul's Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall (1959) and Sanctuary (1969), Sarasota, FL Galloway Furniture Showroom, Sarasota, FL [today, Visionworks] (1959) First Unitarian Church, Westport, CT (1960) United States Embassy, Colombo, Sri Lanka (1961–1985) Demolished early 2023. Sierra Blanca (New Mexico) Ski Apache Ski Resort Lodge (1961) Hillspoint Elementary School, Westport CT (1962) "Bubble Pavilions" for the New York World's Fair of 1964–65 (The Brass Rail Snack Bars) Unitarian Meeting House, Hartford, CT (1964) IBM Garden State Office, Cranford, NJ (1965) Church of the Resurrection Harlem, New York City (1966) Demolished. Wesley Foundation Chapel of the Upper Room, FSU, Tallahassee, FL (1970) St. Bernard's School Education Building, Gladstone, NJ (1970) Lundy Residence in Aspen, Colorado (1972) U.S. Tax Court Building, Washington, D.C. (completed 1974) Austin Centre, Austin, Texas (1986) One Congress Plaza, Austin, Texas (1987)

Lundy's sketches inspired the following books.

"Drawn from War: The Sketches of Sergeant Victor A. Lundy" by Richard O'Hara, a compilation of Lundy's sketches and transcripts of interviews with Lundy. Normandy 1944 by Alberto Pérez Rubio of Desperta Ferro Ediciones, a Madrid-based publisher focusing on military history. The English GI: World War II Graphic Memoir, a graphic novel adaptation of an Englishman, Bernard Sandler, who also served in the 26th Infantry Division in France at the same time as Lundy.