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Lyndon, Donlyn was born on January 7, 1936 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Maynard and Dorothea Katherine (Zentgrebe) Lyndon.
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This collaboration between two distinguished architects and former colleagues is a joyous celebration of admired places and a thoughtful consideration of the role that design has played in giving these places their memorable qualities. It is also an invitation to readers to inhabit the chambers of the book with their own imaginations to join in the making of the Memory Palace proposed. The authors' informal, witty, and anecdotal style extends to the illustrations -- the freehand travel sketches, line drawings, and watercolors of places they have remembered and enjoyed. Chambers for a Memory Palace consists of an exchange of letters in which one author recalls and the other responds to the elements considered essential to the art of successful place-making. Each of the book's chapters forms a chamber, and each chamber is inscribed with personal observations on the composition of places and the architectural elements central to each building, garden, court, monument, or open space described. The examples considered in these dialogues range from classic Western tradition to Asian temples and Islamic tombs, from ancient ruins to modern cities. In "Axes that Reach/Paths that Wander," Lyndon and Moore discuss the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, the Taj Mahal in Agra, Vaux le Vicomte in France, the Beverly Hills Civic Center, and the Kimbell Museum in Forth Worth. In "Orchards that Measure/Pilasters that Temper," they consider the rhythmic spacing of elements in the Mosque at Cordoba, the Cathedral at Bourges, the thousand-pillared mandapas of South Indian temples, the facades of Schauspielhaus in Berlin, and the Seagram building in New York City. They use these and many other examples to illustrate the ways in which architecture, experience, and memory intertwine to help us experience events and places.
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With a new epilogue Richly illustrated with houses large and small, old and new, with photographs, plans, and cutaway drawings, this is a book for people who want a house but who may not know what they really need, or what they have a right to expect. The authors establish the basis for good building by examining houses in the small Massachusetts town of Edgartown; in Santa Barbara, California, where a commitment was made to re-create an imaginary Spanish past; and in Sea Ranch, on the northern California coast, where the authors attempt to create a community. These examples demonstrate how individual houses can express the care, energies, and dreams of the people who live in them, and can contribute to a larger sense of place.
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Lyndon, Donlyn was born on January 7, 1936 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Maynard and Dorothea Katherine (Zentgrebe) Lyndon.
Bachelor, Princeton University, 1957; Master of Fine Arts, Princeton University, 1959.
Assistant professor architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 1960-1964;
associate, Maynard Lyndon Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles, 1960-1962;
partner, Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull, Whitaker (MLTW), Berkeley, 1962-1965;
private practice, Eugene, Oregon, 1965-1978;
head department architecture, U. Oregon, Eugene, 1964-1967;
partner, Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull, Boston, 1967-1971;
professor architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1967-1978;
head department architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1967-1975;
principal, Lyndon Associations, Cambridge, 1971-1978;
partner, Lyndon/Buchanan Associations, Berkeley, California, since 1978;
professor architecture, University of California, Berkeley, since 1978. Chairman panel design guidelines General Services Administration federal development projects NAS, 1990. Coordinator Mayor's Institute City Design West, Berkeley, since 1990.
Resource person Mayor's Institute City design, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1991, Midwest, Minnesota, 1989. Chairman panel design arts policy National Education Association, 1988-1991, review panel stateof arts, 1988-1991. Chairman design committee The Sea Ranch, 1984-1988.
Member design review committee, Newton, Massachusetts, 1972-1975. Board directors International Laboratory Architecture and Urban Design, Italy, since 1977, Kronos Performing Arts Association,1987-.
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Fellow American Institute of Architects (Honor award 1967, 80, 84, Excellence in Education award California council 1991, urban design award of excellence 1992, Twenty-Five Year award 1992), Institute for Urban Design. Member St. Botolph Club (Boston).
Married Alice Wingwall, December 28, 1963. Children: Andrew, Audrey, Laura.