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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon LUNTZ, Abe Born: 1912 12 08 Died: 1978 06 20 Architect Luntz was born in South Africa, thirty-five years later he was living in Australia. From March 1932 to December 1933 he studied architecture at the University of the Witwatersrand and received nine months office experience before leaving in October 1934 to study at the University of Liverpool School of Architecture in England, where he remained until June 1937. He visited France, Egypt and Palestine between March and April 1935; Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany between July and September 1935. He returned to South Africa in 1938 where he registered as an architect and was elected an Associate member of the RIBA. He married Ursula Von Seidel in June, 1941. They had one daughter in 1950, Ingrid. He moved to Australia and went into Private Practice in 1961 in Essendon, Victoria, where he remained until his sudden death on 20th June, 1978, aged sixty-five. He died of heart disease. He is survived by his wife who is still living aged ninety-two (2012), and his daughter. ISAA 1938; ARIBA 1938 (ARIBA nom papers (1938) 6801; ISAA mem list) This Record has been updated by his daughter Ingrid Fox (nee Luntz) All truncated references not fully cited in 'References' are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.