{{Short description|American architect}} {{Infobox person | name = Maynard Lyndon | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = September 6, 1907 | birth_place = Howell, Michigan, U.S. | death_date = November 15, 1999 | death_place = Germany | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | other_names = | education = | alma_mater = University of Michigan | occupation = Architect | employer = | known_for = | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | political_party = | boards = | spouse = Joyce Earley Lyndon | children = 2 sons (including Donlyn Lyndon), 1 daughter | parents = | relatives = }} '''Maynard Lyndon''' {{post-nominals|list=FAIA}} (September 6, 1907 – November 15, 1999) was an American architect. He designed over 40 school buildings in Michigan and California, including the Northville School, known as "the first modern public school in North America". He also designed Bunche Hall on the UCLA campus.
==Early life== Lyndon was born on September 6, 1907, in Howell, Michigan.<ref name="pcadmaynardlyndon">{{cite web|title=Maynard Lyndon (Architect)|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/person/630/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}</ref><ref name="latimesobit">{{cite news|last1=Woo|first1=Elaine|title=Maynard Lyndon; Architect for UCLA's Bunche Hall|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-dec-12-me-43193-story.html|access-date=January 14, 2017|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=December 12, 1999}}</ref> He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1928.<ref name="pcadmaynardlyndon"/>
==Career== Lyndon began his career as a draughtsman for architect Albert Kahn in Detroit, Michigan, from 1928 to 1930.<ref name="pcadmaynardlyndon"/> Over the course of his career, he designed over 40 school buildings in Michigan and California.<ref name="latimesobit"/> He designed were meant to bring in natural light into classrooms.<ref name="latimesobit"/>
By 1936-1937, he designed the Northville School in Northville, Michigan.<ref name="latimesobit"/><ref name="pcadnorthvilleschool">{{cite web|title=Northville Public Schools, Northville School, Northville, MI (1937)|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/17924/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}</ref> According to ''The Los Angeles Times'', with its "concrete construction coupled with refined brick and glass walls", it was "considered the first modern public school in North America".<ref name="latimesobit"/> Lyndon was awarded a Silver Medal at the 5th Pan American Congress of Architects in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1940 for it.<ref name="latimesobit"/> The building was demolished in 2019.
By 1942–1943, with Oscar Stonorov, Lyndon worked on the Wilow Run Housing, a housing estate for workers of the Ford Motor Company designed by Kahn.<ref name="pcadwillowrunhousing">{{cite web|title=United States Government, Federal Public Housing Administration, Willow Run Housing, Willow Run, Ypsilanti, MI (1942-1943)|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/17925/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Michigan|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}</ref> He designed the Apperson Street School at 10233 Woodward Avenue in Sunland, California, in 1946-1947.<ref name="pcadappersonstreetschool">{{cite web|title=Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), Apperson Street School, Los Angeles, CA (1946-1947)|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/5704/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}</ref> He then designed the South Hill Street Ticket Office building for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway at 601 South Hill Street in Downtown Los Angeles from 1947 to 1948.<ref name="pcadrailway">{{cite web|title=Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF), South Hill Street Ticket Office, Los Angeles, CA (1947-1948)|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/11765/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}</ref> thumb|right|Bunche Hall on the UCLA campus from a distance, 2008. Lyndon designed the Vista Elementary School in Vista, California, in 1950.<ref name="pcadvistaschool">{{cite web|title=Vista Unified School District, Vista Elementary School, Vista, CA (1950)|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/5301/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}</ref> He also designed the Meiners Oaks School in Ojai, California, and the Webster School in Malibu.<ref name="latimesobit"/> Additionally, he designed the Culver City Hospital in Culver City in 1952.<ref name="pcadculvercityhospital">{{cite web|title=Culver City Hospital, Culver City, CA (1952)|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/17926/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}</ref> By 1955, he designed the 28th Church of Christ, Scientist at 1018 Hilgard Avenue in Westwood, Los Angeles, just off the UCLA campus (since demolished).<ref name="latimesobit"/><ref name="laconservancychurch">{{cite web|title=Twenty-eighth Church of Christ, Scientist|url=https://www.laconservancy.org/locations/twenty-eighth-church-christ-scientist|website=Los Angeles Conservancy|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}</ref><ref name="pcadchurchofchristwestwood">{{cite web|title=28th Church of Christ, Scientist, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA (1955)|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/17933/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}</ref> A decade later, in 1964, he designed Bunche Hall on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).<ref name="latimesobit"/><ref name="pcaduclahall">{{cite web|title=University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Bunche, Ralph, Hall, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA (1964)|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/5705/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}</ref> He also designed the Harvey Knox shop in Beverly Hills, California.<ref name="latimesobit"/>
With fellow architects Frederick Earl Emmons, Arthur Gallion, Douglas Honnold, A. Quincy Jones, John Leon Rex and Raphael Soriano, he designed the San Pedro Community Hospital at 1300 West 7th Street in San Pedro, Los Angeles in 1958-1960.<ref name="pcadsanpedro">{{cite web|title=San Pedro Community Hospital, San Pedro, Los Angeles, CA (1958-1960)|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/18009/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}</ref>
Lyndon became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1952.<ref name="pcadmaynardlyndon"/>
==Personal life and death== Lyndon was married to landscape designer Joyce Earley Lyndon.<ref name="latimesobit"/> They had two sons, including architect Donlyn Lyndon, and a daughter.<ref name="latimesobit"/> They resided in a house he designed in 1949 located at 28820 Cliffside Drive in Malibu, California.<ref name="pcadmalibuhouse">{{cite web|title=Lyndon, Maynard, House, Malibu, CA (1949)|url=http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/2175/|website=Pacific Coast Architecture Database|publisher=University of Washington|accessdate=January 14, 2017}}</ref> By the 1970s, they moved to Kussaberg, Germany.<ref name="latimesobit"/>
Lyndon died on November 15, 1999, in Germany.<ref name="pcadmaynardlyndon"/><ref name="latimesobit"/>
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