MLTW/Moore-Turnbull, Architects (Partnership)

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Edward Blair Allen, Donlyn Lyndon, Charles Willard Moore, William Turnbull Jr.

Active 1966-1970

Firm Notes

This architectural firm had its headquarters in San Francisco, CA. The original firm, Moore Lyndon Turnbull Whitaker (MLTW), composed of Charles W. Moore (1925-1993), Donlyn Lyndon (born 1936), William Turnbull, Jr., (1935-1997), and Richard R. Whitaker, Jr., (born 1929), formed in 1962 and operated until 1965. A dissolution occurred in 1965, when Richard R. Whitaker, Jr., left the firm to become the Director of Education for the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Permutations of the partners collaborated on jobs thereafter:MLTW/Moore Lyndon Turnbull (1968), MLTW/Lyndon ( 1969-1973) and MLTW/Turnbull Associates (1970- ).

PCAD id: 59

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Buildings and other works

NameDateCityState
Budge House, Healdsburg, CA1966
Sea Ranch Association, Athletic Club, Sea Ranch, Sea Ranch, CA1964-1965Sea RanchCA
Sea Ranch Association, Condominium #1, Sea Ranch, CA1964-1965Sea RanchCA
Sea Ranch Association, Development, Sea Ranch, CA1964-1965Sea RanchCA
Sea Ranch Association, Lawrence House, Sea Ranch, CA1966Sea RanchCA
Sea Ranch Association, Moore, Charles, Apartment, Sea Ranch, CASea RanchCA
Sea Ranch Association, Swim and Tennis Club, Sea Ranch, CA1966-1967Sea RanchCA
Talbert, J. Wilkie, House, Claremont Hills, Oakland, CA 1963-1965OaklandCA
Tempchin, Stanley D., House, Bethesda, MD1967BethesdaMD
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Faculty Club, Santa Barbara, CA1967-1968Santa BarbaraCA

Publications

Accent on Architecture, Part 2: 1991. "1968 A.I.A. Honor Awards", American Institute of Architects Journal, 49: 06/1968. Miller-Fisher, Kris, "Faculty Club: UCSB, MLTW-Charles W. Moore and Wm. Turnbull, Jr., Architects", ArcCA: The Journal of the American Institute of Architects, California Council, 3, 100, 2004. "The Sea Ranch (Book Review)", Architectural Review (London), 215: 1285, 95, 03/2004. Antoniades, Anthony C., Architecture and Allied Design: An Environmental Perspective, Second Edition: 137, 1986. Zunz, Olivier, "USA 71: Faculty Club, Université de Californie, Santa Barbara", Architecture d'aujourd'hui, 43: 157, 1971-08/09. "USA Sea Ranch", Domus, 3, 5/1967. Kalman, Harold, Exploring Vancouver 2, 240, 1978. Bovill, Carl, "Sea Ranch and Nantucket", Fractal Geometry in Architecture and Design, 180-183, 1996. "House of our time, latticed with light", House and Garden, 136: 4, 118-123, 1969-10. "William L. Turnbull Jr., Architect, 62, Dies", New York Times, Section D: Page 13; Column 4, 6/30/1997. Iovine, Julie V., "Open House", New York Times, Section 6: Page 40; Column 2, 7/30/1995. Moore, Charles W., Allen, Gerald, Place of Houses, 160-163, 1974. Turnbull, William, "The Sites We Build On", Places, 11: 38-43, Winter 1998. Lyndon, Donlyn, Sea Ranch: An Early Story of Ecology and Design, 2004-07-12. Shepherd, Roger, Structures of Our Time, 61-65, 80-83, 2002. Gregory, Daniel, William Turnbull, Jr.: A Regional Perspective, 1992. Lyndon, Donlyn, Schwarzer, Mitchell, William Turnbull, Jr.: Buildings in the Landscape, 2000.
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