
Contributor Profile: Glenn Lym
Glenn Lym grew up in the Berkeley flatlands next to the house his grandfather built in the 1910’s. He received his B. Arch from the University of California Berkeley, winning the Eisner Prize for creative archievement and graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He moved to New England and enrolled at Harvard University where he received his Ph.D in Social Psychology. By then he was living in rural New Hampshire.
He returned to the Bay Area to write a small book, teach at UC Berkeley, and apprentice with architects Vernon De Mars, Jack Hilmer, Donald Olsen, Joe Esherick and George Homsey. In 1986 he opened his own architectural practice, which remains focused on residential work around the Bay Area. He is a member of AIASF.
Glenn has written articles for journals such as Places and Architecture:The AIA Journal. He has lectured at UC Berkeley, CounterPulse, The Randal Museum’s San Francisco Natural History Series, and ShapingSF.
He lives in the South of Market district in San Francisco.