{{Short description|American architect (1936–2026)}} {{Infobox architect |image = Donlyn Lyndon.jpg | name = Donlyn Lyndon | birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|1|7}} | birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2026|4|5|1936|1|7}} | death_place=Sea Ranch, California, U.S. | other_names = | alma_mater = | spouse = {{marriage|Alice Wingwall|1963|2026|end=died}} | partner = | children = 3 | parents = Maynard Lyndon | awards = | practice = | significant_buildings = | significant_projects = | significant_design = | signature = | website = | embedded = }}
'''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.<ref name="UCBCED">{{cite web |title=DONLYN LYNDON |url=https://ced.berkeley.edu/ced/faculty-staff/donlyn-lyndon |publisher=UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design |accessdate=12 November 2020}}</ref><ref name=UCB>{{cite web|title=Donlyn Lyndon|url=http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/donlyn-lyndon|website=Berkeley Research|publisher=University of California, Berkeley|accessdate=6 July 2014}}</ref> Lyndon was a co-designer of Sea Ranch, California.<ref name=Gregory>{{cite web|last1=Gregory|first1=Dan|title=Siting help from Sea Ranch architect Donlyn Lyndon|url=http://blog.houseplans.com/article/siting-help-from-sea-ranch-architect-donlyn-lyndon|website=Time to Build|publisher=Houseplans|accessdate=6 July 2014}}</ref>
He was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Maynard Lyndon and Dorothea ({{nee}} Zentgrebe) Lyndon.<ref name=nyt>{{cite web|title=Donlyn Lyndon, Last Surviving Creator of the Sea Ranch, Dies at 90|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/arts/design/donlyn-lyndon-dead.html|last=Green|first=Penelope|date=May 5, 2026|publisher=The New York Times|access-date=May 5, 2026}}</ref> He was married to an artist, Alice Atkinson, who later changed her surname to Wingwall, in 1963. They had two daughters and a son.<ref name=nyt /> Lyndon died in Sea Ranch on April 5, 2026, at the age of 90.<ref>{{Cite web |title=In memoriam: Professor Emeritus Donlyn Lyndon (1936–2026), architect best known for work at The Sea Ranch - UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design |url=https://ced.berkeley.edu/news/in-memoriam-professor-emeritus-donlyn-lyndon-architect-best-known-for-the-sea-ranch |access-date=2026-04-22 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=nyt />
==Education== M.F.A. Architecture, Princeton University A.B. Architecture, Princeton University<ref name="UCBCED" />
==Notable works== * Condominium 1
==Bibliography== * Lyndon, Donlyn and Charles W. Moore. ''Chambers for A Memory Palace''. Cambridge: MIT Press (1996). {{ISBN|0262621053}} * Lyndon, Donlyn. ''The City Observed: Boston, a guide to the Architecture of the Hub''. 1982. {{ISBN|0394748948}} * Lyndon, Donlyn, Curtis W. Fentress, Robert Campbell, John Morris Dixon, Charles Jencks and Coleman Coker. ''Civic Builders''. 2002. {{ISBN|0471498769}} * 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). {{ISBN|0520223578}} * 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). {{ISBN|1616891777}}
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