page_title: Anthony J. Lumsden
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Anthony J. Lumsden / Biography / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Japanese garden at the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant.
context_page_description: Anthony John Hale Lumsden was an American architect most noted for his sculptural and often "futuristic" designs. His projects in Southern California such as the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant are often seen in Hollywood films and televisions shows such as Star Trek Next Generation as part of Starfleet Academy.
context_section_description: His first job at Eero Saarinen & Associates in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, was running the blue print machine. He soon got an opportunity to work on a new chapel design for Concordia Senior College and Eero noticed his talent. He quickly became a core member of the design team at the office and met numerous famous designers and artists of the time such as Charles and Ray Eames, Mies Van Der Rohe and Alexander Calder. After Eero's death, he continued to work with Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo in Hamden, Connecticut. During this period of time he worked on several National AIA award-winning projects such as the General Motors Technical Center.
  In 1965, Lumsden and colleague Cesar Pelli left Roche-Dinkeloo to work in California together at Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall where Lumsden soon became Principal for Design for the firm and stayed in that position for over 25 years. In the 1970s, many of his designs for rolling glass and steel buildings were published internationally. He was selected as a LA 12 member of the Silver Group, and the LA12 (twelve distinguished architects including John Lautner, Craig Elwood, Frank Gehry, Cesar Pelli, Ray Kappe, organized by California State University, Pomona 1976). In 1979, he was also honored as one of six nationally recognized architects including Michael Graves and James Wines invited to display his work in the Museum of Modern Art for the BEST Showroom Competition in 1979 by Philip Johnson.
  Although he worked on hundreds of well known large scale projects including the Moscone Center, Ontario International Airport, and the San Francisco Marriott (famous for its Flash Gordon-like postmodern jukebox shaped tower), his most famous built work is the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant administration building.
caption: Tillman Water Reclamation plant
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