Sculptor of Space
Victor Lundy: Artist Architect
Donna Kacmar, FAIA, author, editor
Wednesday, March 30, 2023 3:00pm Eastern
Midcentury architect Victor Lundy designed civic buildings, churches, houses and commercial buildings that embraced materiality and structural form to create sculptural spaces that evoked the spirit of his time. A prodigious artist, Lundy was educated in both the Beaux-Arts and Bauhaus schools of architecture, combining exceptional drawing skills with modern space making strategies in precedent-setting architecture that he described as the largest sculptural art.
Donna Kacmar, FAIA, University of Houston professor, and editor of Victor Lundy: Artist Architect, took on the book project to fill the gap in published documentation of Lundy’s work after his archive of 56,000 sketches, renderings, drawings, photographs and letters became part of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs collection. Her eye-opening presentation explores how Lundy spent his life analyzing the basic elements of architecture—materials, structure, and light—to sculpt space. Of special interest to APT is Lundy’s problem-solving approach for stretching the capabilities of materials and engineering to conceive visionary buildings that still resonate today.
