Donlyn Lyndon (January 7, 1936 – April 5, 2026) was an American third bay tradition architect and the Eva Li professor of architecture and urban design at the University of California, Berkeley. Lyndon was a co-designer of Sea Ranch, California.
He was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Maynard Lyndon and Dorothea ( Zentgrebe) Lyndon. He was married to an artist, Alice Atkinson, who later changed her surname to Wingwall, in 1963. They had two daughters and a son. Lyndon died in Sea Ranch on April 5, 2026, at the age of 90.
Education M.F.A. Architecture, Princeton University A.B. Architecture, Princeton University
Notable works Condominium 1
Bibliography Lyndon, Donlyn and Charles W. Moore. Chambers for A Memory Palace. Cambridge: MIT Press (1996). Lyndon, Donlyn. The City Observed: Boston, a guide to the Architecture of the Hub. 1982. Lyndon, Donlyn, Curtis W. Fentress, Robert Campbell, John Morris Dixon, Charles Jencks and Coleman Coker. Civic Builders. 2002. Lyndon, Donlyn, Giancarlo De Carlo, Peter Smithson, Attilio Petruccioli and Francesco Smassa. The Eastern Lagoon Front. Venice: City of Venice (2001). Lyndon, Donlyn, Charles Moore, and Gerald Allen. The Place of Houses. Berkeley: University of California Press (2000). Lyndon, Donlyn, Jim Alinder, Donald Cantry and Lawrence Halprin. The Sea Ranch: Fifty Years of Architecture, Landscape, Place, and Community on the Northern California Coast. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press (2013).
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