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Warner, Burns, Toan, Lunde[a]
Practice information
PartnersCharles H. Warner Jr.; Robert Burns; Danforth W. Toan; Frithjof M. Lunde
FoundersCharles H. Warner Jr.
Founded1957
LocationNew York, New York
Fine Hall of Princeton University, completed in 1969.

Warner, Burns, Toan, Lunde was a New York-based American architectural firm active in the second half of the twentieth century. Established in 1957, it was best known for the design of major buildings on academic campuses in the United States and Canada. The firm still exists, practicing as WBTL Architects since 1998.

Firm history[edit]

The firm was formed in 1957 as the partnership of Charles H. Warner Jr., Robert Burns (1916-1997), Danforth W. Toan and Frithjof M. Lunde.[1] The firm's leadership team was expanded in 1961, when Eric Joseph Pick and Eleanor (Doermann) Larrabee were made associates in the firm.[2]

Warner had first practiced in the firm of Warner-Leeds, in association with Harold Eliot Leeds. This firm existed from 1947 to 1955 and was responsible for the interiors of the Paris Theatre[b] (1948) in New York[3] and collaborated on the design of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico (1952) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in association with Toro-Ferrer, a leading Puerto Rican architecture firm.[4] Between the dissolution of that firm in 1955 and 1957, Warner was a sole practitioner. During this period he designed the Foss Hill group of dormitories at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, in association with Brown, Lawford & Forbes.[5]

In 1977 the partnership was expanded to include Eric J. Pick AIA (May 31, 1922 – October 30, 2016), Bernard Ehrlich AIA (January 27, 1922 – July 16, 2009) and Erdmann K. H. Riedel AIA (March 10, 1933 – September 30, 2015).[6]

In 1989 the partnership was expanded to include Richard A. Fox AIA and Fredric M. Bell FAIA.[7]

In 1998 the firm was incorporated as WBTL Architects.

Biographies of founders[edit]

Charles H. Warner Jr.[edit]

Charles H. Warner Jr. was born in 1911. He attended Wesleyan University and Columbia University, graduating from the latter in 1938. He worked for architects Morris Ketchum Jr. and industrial designer Donald Deskey.

Warner retired from active practice in 1981, but continued to consult on Warner, Burns, Toan, Lunde projects until his death.

Warner taught architecture at Cornell and Columbia. Warner died November 2, 2004 at home in Upper Nyack, New York.

Robert Burns[edit]

Robert Burns was born January 12, 1916 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers University and Columbia University, graduating from Columbia in 1947. He worked for industrial designer George Nelson and architects Mayer, Whittlesey & Glass, before joining Warner in 1956,[8] becoming a member of Warner, Burns, Toan, Lunde the following year.

Burns joined the American Institute of Architects in 1963. In addition to professional work, Burns taught architecture at Columbia from 1949 forward. He was a resident of Nutley, New Jersey.[8] Burns died in 1997.[9]

Danforth W. Toan[edit]

Danforth Wallace Toan was born November 3, 1918. He attended Dartmouth College and Columbia University]], graduating from the latter in 1949. During World War II he served with the Coast Guard. He had joined Warner by 1954.

Toan died January 16, 2013. He was a resident of Tappan, New York.

Frithjof M. Lunde[edit]

Frithjof Martin Lunde, also known as Fritz Lunde, was born February 7, 1921 in Risør, Norway. He served in the Air Force during World War II.[10] Lunde was managing partner of Warner, Burns, Toan, Lunde from 1963 to 1989.[11] Lunde died March 31, 2012 in Charleston, South Carolina.[10] He was formerly a resident of Cortlandt Manor, New York.

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Architectural works[edit]

Exterior, Robarts Library, University of Toronto.
Atrium, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Robarts Library, University of Toronto.

Libraries and other campus buildings[edit]

The firm's best-known work is the John P. Robarts Research Library on the campus of the University of Toronto, completed in 1973. Described as "forceful, mannered, and aloof," The main part of the building is fourteen floors high, flanked by the lower Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library and Claude T. Bissell Building. This concrete Brutalist building was designed on a triangular plan, which influences every part of the building down to small details. The building is noted for its high quality of construction and detail.[12] The design of the library was executed in collaboration with the Toronto architecture firm of Mathers & Haldenby. Though Warner, Burns, Toan, Lunde were labeled as "design consultants" for this project, they were the library's primary designers, with Mathers & Haldenby responsible for working drawings and construction supervision.[13]

1960 - John M. Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York[14]

1961 - Mabel Smith Douglass Library,[c] Douglass Residential College of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey[15]

1963 - Malott Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York[16]

1964 - Campus of Corning Community College, Corning, New York, 1964.[17]

1967 - Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, Student Center and Unispan Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York[18]


1969 - Rutgers (College Avenue) Student Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey[8]

1969 - Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

1971 - Ruth S. Hartley University Center, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York[18]

1971-74 - Seeley G. Mudd Center, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio[19]

1974 - Esther Raushenbush Library, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York

1975 - Seeley G. Mudd Building, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina - medical library.[20]


1980-82 - Steinberg Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[21]

1985-86 - Clemens Library, College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota - Toan and Larrabee.

1990-92 - Rutgers Art Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey[22]

Library of Science and Medicine, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Hill Center for the Mathematical Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

E. W. Fairchild-Martindale Library, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Philip Rauch Fieldhouse, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Stabler Athletic and Convocation Center, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Hotels[edit]

1962 - Hilton Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

1965-66 - Hilton Barbados, Bridgetown, Barbados - Demolished 1999.[23]

1970 - Colonial Hilton Inn,[d] Goat Island, Newport, Rhode Island[17]

1976-79 - Ramses Hilton, Cairo, Egypt - In association with Egyptian architect Ali Nour el-Din Nassar.[24]

Other projects[edit]

1957-58 - Unitarian Church of Princeton, Princeton, New Jersey[30]

1982 - Aurora Public Library, Aurora, Colorado - In association with Brooks Waldman Associates.[31]



1968 - Campus of Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, New York in association with Katz, Waisman, Weber, Strauss.[3]

Gallery of architectural works[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ The firm is sometimes referred to by sources as Warner, Burns, Toan & Lunde, though the firm itself did not use an ampersand.
  2. ^ Contained within the office building at 4 West 58th Street, designed by Emery Roth & Sons.
  3. ^ Eleanor Larrabee, designer.
  4. ^ Operated under several names since 1971, including Sheraton Islander Inn, Islander Doubletree Hotel, Hyatt Regency and most recently Gurney's Newport.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Notices," Progressive Architecture 38, no. 11 (November 1957): 262.
  2. ^ "Notices," Progressive Architecture 42, no. 10 (October 1961): 222.
  3. ^ a b c d e Norval White, Elliot Willensky and Fran Leadon, AIA Guide to New York City (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010)
  4. ^ NRHP Registration Form for Supreme Court Building (2006)
  5. ^ David B. Potts, Wesleyan University, 1910-1970: Academic Ambition and Middle-Class America (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2015)
  6. ^ "Notices" in Progressive Architecture 58, no. 9 (September, 1977): 148.
  7. ^ "Names and News" in NYC/AIA Oculus 51, no. 6 (February, 1989): 10.
  8. ^ a b c "Burns, Robert," American Architects Directory (New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1970): 123-124.
  9. ^ "Robert Burns"
  10. ^ a b "Frithjof 'Fritz' Lunde," Charleston (CS) Post and Courier, April 3 2012.
  11. ^ "Ehrlich, Bernard," New York Times, August 9 2009.
  12. ^ Patricia McHugh and Alex Bozikovic, Toronto Architecture: A City Guide (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2017)
  13. ^ Ellsworth Mason, Mason on Library Buildings (Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 1980)
  14. ^ "2047-Olin Library"
  15. ^ Kayo Denda, Mary Hawkesworth and Fernanda Perrone, The Douglass Century: Transformation of the Women's College at Rutgers University (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2018)
  16. ^ "2081-Malott Hall"
  17. ^ a b Miriam F. Stimpson, A Field Guide to Landmarks of Modern Architecture in the United States (New York: Prentice Hall, 1985)
  18. ^ a b AIA Architectural Guide to Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Long Island, ed. Robert B. MacKay, Stanley Lindvall and Carol Traynor (New York: Dover Publications, 1982)
  19. ^ Geoffrey Blodgett, Oberlin Architecture, College and Town: A guide to its Social History (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1985)
  20. ^ John M. Bryan, Duke University: An Architectural Tour (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000)
  21. ^ George E. Thomas and David B. Brownlee, Building America's First University: An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000)
  22. ^ Halina R. Rusak, "The Art Library: A New Art Landmark at Rutgers Mall," Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries 54, no. 2 (1992): 24-36.
  23. ^ "Construction Projects," International Commerce 69, no. 17 (April 29 1963): 38.
  24. ^ Udo Kultermann, Contemporary Architecture in the Arab States: Renaissance of a Region, (New York: McGraw Hill, 1999)
  25. ^ William McKenzie Woodward and Edward F. Sanderson, Providence: A Citywide Survey of Historic Resources, ed. David Chase (Providence: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, 1986)
  26. ^ Donald Curl, The Boca Raton Resort and Club: Mizner's Inn (Charleston: History Press, 2008)
  27. ^ Raymond P. Rhinehart, Princeton University: An Architectural Tour (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999): 146-147.
  28. ^ Vivien Raynor, "A new setting at Rutgers," New York Times, March 20, 1983.
  29. ^ Alan S. Oser, "A Downtown Hotel in Search of a Niche All Its Own," New York Times, February 13, 1994, R7.
  30. ^ "Channing Hall Design"
  31. ^ Thomas J. Noel, Buildings of Colorado, vol. 2 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)
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