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Donlyn Lyndon was born on January 7, 1936. He earned both a B.A. and an M.F.A. in architecture from Princeton University and began his professional life teaching architecture while running a small “weekend practice” with classmates in Berkeley.

In the early 1960s he and fellow Princeton alumni Charles Moore, William Turnbull Jr., and Richard Whitaker formed the firm MLTW and were recruited by developer Al Boeke and landscape architect Lawrence Halprin to design the Sea Ranch, a pioneering coastal community that emphasized harmony with the rugged Northern California landscape. Lyndon helped create the project's prototype buildings, advocating a humane, flexible architecture that responded to the land and its inhabitants.

Lyndon later joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, where he became the Eva Li Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Urban Design. He authored several influential books on architecture and urbanism and remained an active voice in the Third Bay Tradition until his death on April 5, 2026, at his home in Sea Ranch, aged 90.