Architect Victor Lundy will turn 100 years old on February 1. To commemorate this significant event and to discuss the relevance of Lundy’s work, MAS Context has organized an online event on that day with presentations by Donna Kacmar and Whitney Moon.

American architect Victor Lundy’s artistic talents from an early age influenced both his Beaux Arts and Bauhaus architectural training. His architectural works such as the Nokomis Presbyterian Drive-In Church, the Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce, St. Paul’s Lutheran Fellowship Hall, and Warm Mineral Springs Motel showcase Lundy’s exploration of structural systems. The I Miller Salon, Singer Showroom, and IBM Building reflect how he used materials to create evocative spaces. The “space flowers” at the World’s Fair in 1964–1965 and his traveling exhibition hall for the US Atomic Energy Commission represent his search for the overlap between form and efficiency in pneumatic structures. Lundy’s US Tax Court building in Washington, DC, and US Embassy in Sri Lanka were both a study in patience and determination.

During this talk, Donna Kacmar, FAIA, a Professor at the University of Houston and the principal of Architect Works, PLLC, as well as the editor and author of several chapters in the book Victor Lundy: Artist Architect, will provide an overview of Lundy’s career. Whitney Moon, Associate Professor of Architecture and Chair of the Ph.D. Program in Architecture at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, will discuss the pneumatic structures of Lundy.

Based in Chicago, MAS Context are a platform that commissions and shares relevant ideas, proposals, and experiences that connect diverse disciplines and place. We want the work to respond to our current context while having a rigor and depth that makes it relevant through time and changing conditions.

Wednesday February 1, 7:00 pm ET
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