William Turnbull Jr., FAIA, (April 1, 1935 – June 26, 1997) was an American Bay Area[1] architect whose unique[2] building designs challenged the more traditional architecture of California's West Coast.
Post, who designed the New York Stock Exchange Building,[3] Turnbull studied architecture at Princeton, graduating in 1956.
Turnbull worked on a Big Sur revitalization project, which may have had a factor in developing his lifelong connection to California.
[3] Turnbull's professional start was in the early 1960s with the development of the iconic[3] Sea Ranch community in Sonoma County.
In addition to the Sea Ranch development, Turnbull was a contributor to Kresge College, the University of California, Santa Cruz, the Foothill Student housing complex at University of California, Berkeley, and St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Sonoma County, the latter of which he worked on with his wife and fellow architect Mary Griffin.