Join Preservation Houston and Houston Mod for an online program exploring architect Victor Lundy’s remarkable career with architect Donna Kacmar and architectural historian Stephen Fox.

Lundy’s long and varied career saw him produce striking, sculptural designs for homes, retail stores, churches and government buildings. Lundy was trained in the Beaux Arts and Bauhaus traditions, and though his work drew from both, his experimentation with material and form created a style all his own. Today, Lundy’s work is praised for its careful composition and timeless quality — and yet he remains one of the most under-appreciated figures in modern American architecture.

In the New York Tri-State area, Lundy designed three churches, at least two schools and various other projects. The exciting Unitarian Church in Westport (1965) in Westport, CT was included in one of the DOCOMOMO US 2023 Symposium conference tours. He also designed the much admired Unitarian Meeting House (1964) in Hartford. Sadly, Lundy’s Church of the Resurrection (1965) in East Harlem, recipient of a 1966 National AIA Award of Merit, was demolished in 2008 and his IBM, Garden State Branch Office (1965) in Cranford, New Jersey was demolished around 1990.

Kacmar edited the 2019 book Victor Lundy: Artist Architect, the first on the architect’s life and work; Fox contributed a chapter on Lundy’s Houston projects, including the 1985 studio he designed for his wife Anstis and their 1988 home in Bellaire.

A Q&A with the speakers, moderated by architect and Houston Mod President Steve Curry, will follow the presentation.

Tuesday August 27, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm ET
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