Finding Aid for the Victor Cusack papers, 1915-2005, bulk 1932-1989 0000125
Jocelyn Gibbs and Chris Marino
The processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered
through the Council on Library and Information Resources "Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives" Project.
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
April 16, 2014
Arts Building Room 1434
University of California
Santa Barbara, California 93106-7130
Business Number: 805-893-2724
adc@museum.ucsb.edu
Contributing Institution:
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Title: Victor Cusack papers
Creator:
Charles Luckman Associates
Creator:
Pereira and Luckman, Architects, Engineers and Planners
Creator:
Hertzka & Knowles, Architects
Creator:
Cusack, Victor A.
source:
Cusack, Victor A.
Creator:
Luckman, Charles
Creator:
Pereira, William L.
Identifier/Call Number: 0000125
Physical Description:
9 Linear Feet
(6 boxes and 1 flat file drawer)
Date (inclusive): 1915-2005
Date (bulk): 1940-1989
Abstract: Victor Cusack is an American architect who spent most of his professional career in the offices of William Pereira & Associates,
Pereira and Luckman, and Charles Luckman Associates. His papers contain biographical material, including his unfinished memoir
about his year with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin and photographs taken during his time there. Also included are reports,
printed materials, and drawings for assorted designs in his own practice, and for William Pereira, Pereira and Luckman, and
Charles Luckman, as well as for Herzka & Knowles. Projects at Pereira for which Cusack had design responsibility include the
California Federal Savings and Loan Building in Los Angeles, the Lockheed Corporation headquarters in Calabasas, the west
terminal (now called the Bradley terminal) for the Los Angeles International Airport, and several master plans and reports
for other projects,including campus planning for the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Language of Material:
English
.
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Custodial History
Gift of Victor Cusack, 1999, 2010, 2013.
Preferred Citation
Victor Cusack papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Biographical / Historical
Victor Aubrey Cusack was born December 13, 1915 in Ramsey, Bergen County, New Jersey and grew up in Yonkers, Westchester County,
New York, where he was raised from early childhood by his maternal grandparents. He graduated from the Charles E. Gorton High
School in North Yonkers in 1934.
A publisher and editor of a financial newspaper, his grandfather expected Victor to work for him on Wall Street rather than
attend college. Victor, however, had independently taken the New York State college entrance examinations and passed with
honors. His objective was to apply to Yale University's architectural school, a five-year course. Encouraged by Yale's offer
of a scholarship and a tuition loan as well as assistance in finding employment in New Haven, Victor entered Yale in September
1938.
Victor's course at Yale was interrupted in 1936 when a lecture by Frank Lloyd Wright, in which he condemned the beaux-arts
principles of architecture then taught at Yale, inspired Victor to try to join Wright's apprenticeship program in Wisconsin.
Victor approached Alexander Woollcott, the critic and playwright and a confidant of Wright, for advice. Woollcott wrote to
Wright on Victor's behalf and encouraged Victor to personally show up at Taliesin, Wright's workshop in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
Wright accepted Victor for a work study apprenticeship.
Victor apprenticed with Wright from October 1938 through December 1940, working kitchen and farming assignments in Wisconsin
and assisting with building work at Taliesin West, Wright's desert camp then under construction outside Phoenix, Arizona.
Wright sent Victor to New York City in December 1940 to help install the retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern
Art. Cusack's unfinished memoir about Taliesin includes photographs of his time with Wright and the Fellowship and describes
several of the apprentices he met there, including Edgar Tafel, James Thompson, and George Nelson.
By the end of 1940, worried about his eligibility for the war draft and by Yale's threats to foreclose on his tuition loans
if he did not return, Cusack knew that he would have to leave Taliesin and return to Yale. Wright, understanding Victor's
predicament, wrote to Dean Meeks at Yale asking for leniency, but to no avail. Wright's wife Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, irate
when told of Victor's decision to leave, demanded that Victor leave immediately. On Christmas day 1940, Victor found himself
on a Greyhound bus from Phoenix bound for New York, with fare offered by the architect George Nelson who was at Taliesin preparing
a special issue of
Architectural Forum on Wright's work.
Back in New York, Cusack found that working as a draftsman at the U.S. Navy submarine base in New London, Connecticut would
give him an exemption from the draft for a year. There he was put in charge of designing camouflage for ships and submarines.
At the end of 1941 Victor enlisted in a U.S. Navy program that allowed him to return to Yale University and complete work
for his degree.
While he was in Connecticut, Victor worked briefly for James Thompson, a wealthy architect based in Hartford who Victor had
met at Taliesin and for whom he designed two residential projects in Connecticut: the Ellsworth house in Simsbury and the
Jack Ross house in West Hartford.
In 1942 Victor decided to volunteer for the U.S. Navy Construction Battalion (C-Bs) but instead was assigned to U.S.N. officer
training school in New York City, followed by radar training in Florida. When the war in the Pacific was over and Victor was
able to resign his commission, he found himself in San Diego and decided to stay in California and move to Los Angeles, determined
to work for the best modern architect in the city.
He applied repeatedly to the office of William L. Pereira (1909-1985), finally obtaining an interview after the socially prominent
father of a friend asked Pereira to see him. Cusack joined Pereira's office in 1949 and worked for Pereira for 28 years. He
has said that he owed a lot to Pereira's influence, more so than to Frank Lloyd Wright, his first architectural mentor.
Cusack described Pereira as a "great verbal conceptualizer," who liked to explore the conception for every project with his
designers over long discussions. Cusack worked on many of Pereira's commissions, including the prize-winning design for the
Union 76 Oil Company office headquarters in Los Angeles, 1949-1950, and the Los Angeles International airport (LAX), beginning
circa 1953.
In 1950, Pereira invited Charles Luckman (1909-1999) to join the firm. Luckman, trained as an architect at the University
of Illinois where he and Pereira first met as classmates, had become a noted businessman at a young age and was the president
of Lever Bros. in New York City when Pereira approached him. Luckman brought considerable marketing skills and business contacts
to the partnership. Cusack worked as Senior Designer for Pereira and Luckman in Los Angeles until 1954, when he was sent to
Spain for the firm to work on designing U.S. air force bases near Malaga. During his time with the firm, Cusack also worked
as chief designer on the master plan for the UC Santa Barbara campus, where Pereira and Luckman were the consulting campus
architects.
Cusack returned to the United States from Spain at the end of 1955 and decided to try to find work in San Francisco, a city
he preferred to Los Angeles. Between 1956 and 1959, Cusack was the chief designer for the established city firm, Hertzka &
Knowles. While there he designed offices, stores, and hotels in San Francisco and Oakland.
Charles Luckman and William Pereira held increasingly different views about the future of the firm and ended their partnership
in 1959. Luckman was interested in building a large international practice; Pereira wanted to maintain a firm that allowed
him to meet with all his designers around a single table. Pereira was social; Luckman was a businessman. Luckman bought out
Pereira's interest in the firm, including the Los Angeles airport commission and rights to all other projects that were then
in the Pereira and Luckman office.
Subsequently, Luckman established Charles Luckman Associates and convinced Cusack to return to Los Angeles to join the firm
as Chief Designer. Though reluctant to leave San Francisco, Cusack agreed and only after he returned to L.A. did he realize
that he would be one of several "chief" designers. Cusack worked for Charles Luckman Associates from 1959 to 1964. During
that time he designed, among other projects, an American Pavilion for the 1964 World's Fair in New York (unrealized), and
the California Federal Savings and Loan headquarters building at 5900 Wilshire Blvd.
Always eager to travel, Cusack left Luckman in 1964 for a yearlong sabbatical and world trip. When William Pereira was awarded
the commission to design an international terminal (now called the Bradley terminal) for the Los Angeles airport in 1965,
he asked Cusack to rejoin him and serve as chief designer for the project. Cusack created the initial design concept, which
included the idea of having the wide-bodied planes dock at the west face of the terminal. Although this idea was not implemented
then, it finally was incorporated in a recent remodeling. Due to the complexity of the project, the international terminal
became a joint venture with other architects, including Welton Becket and Paul R. Williams. To Cusack's dismay, Daniel Dworsky
was made the design partner for the joint venture, which he headed with Pereira. In compensation, Pereira assigned Cusack
the Lockheed Company Headquarters project to design and supervise.
In 1971, Cusack took a leave of absence from William L. Pereira's office to travel, returning in 1972 to become Vice-President
of William L. Pereira Associates. Cusack retired from the firm only after William Pereira died in 1985. Scott Johnson and
William Fain, both of whom had worked in Pereira's office, founded the successor firm of Johnson Fain.
In 2005, Cusack, Harrison Lewis Whitney, and William A. Schoneberger wrote and published the book,
A Symbol of Los Angeles: The History of the Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport 1952-1961. In February 2012 the Los Angeles Conservancy's Modern Committee designated Victor A. Cusack a Modern Master.
Victor Cusack died in Los Angeles on September 1, 2020.
Scope and Content note
The Victor Cusack papers span 5 linear feet and date from 1932 to 2004. The collection contains personal papers relating to
Cusack's biography and training as an architect, including his apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright (1938-1940), his service
during World War II (1945-1946), and some family history. Photographs and an unfinished memoir document Victor Cusack's experience
with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin. The bulk of the collection documents Victor Cusack's architectural design work in his
individual practice and as a designer for William Pereira, Pereira and Luckman, and Charles Luckman. Several projects record
his work as chief designer for Herzka & Knowles in San Francisco, during 1957-1958.
Materials include clippings and publications, master plan reports, printed ephemera and publications, photographs, drawings
and sketches, and a video recording. Photographs, sketches, and an unfinished memoir by Cusack describe his time at Taliesin.
Publications, manuscripts, a sketch, ephemera, and a video recording relate to William Pereira as an individual and as an
architect and planner.
Master plan reports, architectural drawings and sketches, and photographs document projects on which Victor Cusack worked,
in his individual practice and his work as designer in other firms, primarily for William Pereira and Charles Luckman. Design
projects include houses, corporate headquarters, and commercial buildings, as well as planning studies for the Los Angeles
International Airport and designs for the West Terminal (now called the Bradley Terminal) at LAX. Also in the collection is
the book that Cusack wrote about the history and design of the LAX Theme Building. Other significant designs represented in
the collection include the Lockheed headquarters building in Calabasas, the Union Oil Center building, the California Savings
and Loan Building in Los Angeles, and designs for the University of California at Santa Barbara.
The papers are arranged in three series: Series I. Personal papers; Series II. Papers relating to William Pereira; and Series
III. Architectural projects.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Reprographic copies
Architectural drawings
Photographic prints
Architecture -- California
William Pereira Associates
Pereira and Luckman, Architects, Engineers and Planners
Falkenstein, Claire
Hertzka & Knowles, Architects
Cusack, Victor A.
Cusack, Victor A.
Luckman, Charles
Pereira, William L.
Personal papers I.
1915-1947
Physical Description: 1 Linear Feet(2 boxes)
Scope and Contents
Series includes biographical documents, professional resume, and clippings and photographs relating to Cusack, as well as
Cusack family research. Cusack's interest in Frank Lloyd Wright and his year at Taliesin with Wright (October 1938-December
1940) are documented in photographs, drawings of nature and landscape, and an unfinished Taliesin memoir. His war service
is documented through the Buccaneer newsletters, which Cusack was in charge of producing while he was stationed with the U.S.S.
Pittsburgh.
box 1, folder 1
Resume of architectural practice 1944-1993
ca. 1993
box 1, folder 2
Biographical materials
undated
box 1, folder 3
Biographical photos and clippings
ca. 1934-1960
box 1, folder 4
Birth certificate (photocopy)
1915
box 1, folder 5
Cusack family research
Scope and Contents
Cusack-Hooke family tree, coat of arms, and family history.
box 1, folder 6
Yale University diploma
1943
box 1, folder 7
California State Board of Architectural Examiners certificate
1952
box 3, folder 1
AIA, certificate of membership
1957
box 1, folder 8
Appointment to Naval Reserve, certificate
1944
box 1, folder 9
Buccaneer Newsletters
1944-1945
Scope and Contents
Cusack was editor and illustrator, while stationed with the U.S.S. Pittsburgh.
box 1, folder 10
Taliesin memoir: manuscript excerpt, "F. L. Wright at Yale"
1994
box 2
A Taliesin memoir 1935-1940
circa 1994
Scope and Contents
145 pp of text, photographs, and supporting material for Cusacks unfinished account of his time at Taliesin West and the significance
of F. L. Wright in his training as an architect.
box 3, folder 2
Photographs taken at Taliesin East (Wisconsin) and Taliesin West (Arizona)
1938-1940
Scope and Contents
Photographic prints by Cusack, Edgar Tafel, and others of people and the sites.
box 1, folder 11
Drawings done at Taliesin
1938-1940
Scope and Contents
Cusack's drawings from nature.
box 1, folder 12
"Guggenheim redux,"
Journal of the Taliesin Fellowship, #12
1993-1994
Scope and Contents
Article recounts the F.L. Wright exhibition at the Guggenheim, on which Victor Cusack worked for Wright, building models.
box 1, folder 13
"Two Retrospectives in Retrospect," Victor Cusack, in
Journal of the Taliesin Fellowship, #13
1994
box 1, folder 14
Cusack materials from David Russell
drawer 589, flatfile 1
4 watercolor drawings
1934, 1937, 1954
box 1, folder 15
Notes on evenings with Claire Falkenstein
1991-1993, 1997, 2004
Physical Description: 8 items(8 pages)
Scope and Contents
Typed notes that document Victor Cusacks's conversations with Claire Falkenstein about her work and career, that took place
between 1991 and 1997, the date of his last conversation with her. Some of the notes were typed up years later, presumeably
from his hand-written notes.
Papers relating to William Pereira II.
circa 1970-1985
Physical Description: 0.25 Linear Feet
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscripts and a drawing by William Pereria, and printed materials about him as well as a video recording of interviews
with people who knew him.
box 1, folder 16
Pereira manuscript on planning
Scope and Contents
Edited typescript and original handwritten mss.
box 1, folder 17
Clippings and printed materials about Pereira
box 1, folder 18
Manuscript draft of Pereira's speech to the FAA, Washington, D.C.
1971
box 1, folder 19
Time magazine issue with Pereira on cover
Sept. 6, 1963
box 1
"Legacy of William L. Pereira": VHS recording by Bronya Pereira
undated
Existence and Location of Copies
DVD use copy available.
Scope and Contents
Includes interview with Victor Cusack, among others.
Architectural projects III.
1941-1989
Physical Description: 4.5 Linear Feet(1 box and 1 flat file drawer)
Scope and Contents
This series contains architectural drawings, photographs, reprographic copies, printed ephemera, and project files for Cusacks'
work with both William Pereira and Charles Luckman, as well as his own work.
box 6, folder 3
Cairn Lea School for Joan Landon (Brentwood, Los Angeles, Calif.)
1949
Scope and Contents
Proposed plan and elevation
California Federal Savings and Loan headquarters (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1965
box 1, folder 43
Photographs and printed ephemera
drawer 589, flatfile 16
Drawings
Creator: Charles Luckman Associates
Scope and Contents
11 drawings of plans, sections, and elevations.
box 6, folder 4
California State Governor's Residence competition entry
1962
Scope and Contents
Drawings on two boards: elevations, plans, and sections
drawer 589, flatfile 24, drawer 589, flatfile 31
California World's Fair master plan (Long Beach, Calif.)
1967-1968
Creator: Charles Luckman Associates
Scope and Contents
3 drawings of site plan and aerial view.
One birds' eye perspective.
box 1, folder 46
Chapman College Natural Sciences building (Orange, Calif.)
1968
Scope and Contents
Printed empemera and photographs; William Pereira & Associates, Victor Cusack, designer.
drawer 589, flatfile 27
Communications City master plan
1953
Creator: Pereira and Luckman, Architects, Engineers and Planners
Scope and Contents
Plan on tracing paper, mounted on board. Cuscak was the designer for Pereira & Luckman.
Community Design Hospital competition entry
1961
box 1, folder 40
Photographs and printed ephemera
Scope and Contents
Photographs of model, clipping, and grand prize certificate of award for design by Victor Cusack, Ronald Meza and James Moore.
drawer 589, flatfile 12
Large format photographs of model
Scope and Contents
3 photographs of model.
box 1, folder 22
Community Hospital (Hobbs, New Mexico)
1950
Scope and Contents
Clipping: William Pereira, architect; Victor Cusack, designer.
Eckley, Amory house (Catalina Island, Calif.)
1947
box 6, folder 1
Plan and perspective mounted on board
drawer 589, flatfile 4
Architectural Drawing
Scope and Contents
2 drawings of floor plan and perspective (possibly not Eckley, but Lieberman house plan)
box 1, folder 31
Edwards Air Force base, master plan
circa 1953
Scope and Contents
Printed ephemera. Cusack was the project captain for this project.
box 1, folder 26
El Paso Medical Center (El Paso, Tx)
1951, 1953
Scope and Contents
William Pereira, architect; Victor Cusack, designer: photograph of drawing and printed page with text and construction photos.
box 1, folder 20
Ellsworth house (Simsbury, Conn.)
1941
Farmers and Stockmen's Bank (Phoenix, Az.)
1950-1951
Scope and Contents
William Pereira, architect.
box 1, folder 27
Photographs, clippings and printed ephemera
circa 1951
drawer 589, flatfile 7
Drawings
1950-1951
Creator: Pereira, William L.
Scope and Contents
11 drawings of plans, sections, elevations, and details.
Hertzka & Knowles assorted projects
circa 1956-1958
Scope and Contents
Printed ephemera and photographs of projects on which Victor Cusack worked for this San Francisco firm: Lakeshore Towers Apartments
(Oakland, Calif.); Study for Standard Oil Company office building (San Francisco); New Store for Moore's (San Francisco);
Market Street office annex to Crocker Bank (San Francisco); C2 building at Skidmore; America-Fore Insurance Co. building.
Proposed Lake Park Hotel and apartments (Oakland, Calif.)
circa 1957
drawer 589, flatfile 9
Drawing for Lakeshore Towers apartments
Scope and Contents
One copy of perspective drawing of apartment building.
Pacific Employers Insurance Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)
circa 1957
box 1, folder 35
Photographs of renderings
drawer 589, flatfile 10
Drawings
Creator: Hertzka & Knowles, Architects
Scope and Contents
2 perspective drawings.
drawer 589, flatfile 11
Van Ness Avenue Hotel and office building (San Francisco, Calif.)
circa 1957
Scope and Contents
5 small drawings of site plan, plot plan, and floor plans; 2 photographs of model.
box 1, folder 49
Hollywood-Burbank Airport Master plan
1975
Scope and Contents
Draft, final report; William Pereira & Associates
box 1, folder 37
Hotel-Office complex (Los Angeles, Calif.): photographs of renderings
circa 1960
Scope and Contents
Charles Luckman is architect of record. Cusack was the designer.
Hutchison, J.S. house (Chatsworth Park, Calif.)
1950, 1975
Creator: Cusack, Victor A.
Creator: Pereira and Luckman, Architects, Engineers and Planners
Physical Description: 4 Linear Feet
drawer 589, flatfile 6
Blueprints
1950
Creator: Pereira and Luckman, Architects, Engineers and Planners
Physical Description: 18 items
General
18 blueprints in file; all have digital object files
box 1, folder 24-25
Photographs
1950, circa 1975
Scope and Contents
Photographs from 1950 and color photographs and real estate brochure from circa 1975. Designed by Victor Cusack for William
Pereira Associates.
drawer 589, flatfile 8
Lazarus, S.M. house
1952
Scope and Contents
2 drawings of site plan and perspective.
Lear, Jack house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1949-1950
box 1, folder 28
Library for Cal Tech (Pasadena, Calif.)
circa 1952
Scope and Contents
Photographs of drawings: William Pereira, architect; Victor Cusack, designer.
drawer 589, flatfile 3
Lieberman, Jack house 8646 Hillside Ave. (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1946
Scope and Contents
3 drawings of plans, sections, and elevations.
Lockheed Corporation headquarters (Calabassas, Calif.)
1963, 1979, 1983
Scope and Contents
William Pereria & Associates, Victor Cusack designer.
box 1, folder 44-45
Photographs and printed ephemera
box 3, folder 3
Photographs of drawing and model
drawer 589, flatfile 17
Architectural Drawings
Creator: William Pereira Associates
Scope and Contents
50 drawings of plans, sections, elevations, and details.
drawer 589, flatfile 18
Study sketches
1979
Creator: William Pereira Associates
Scope and Contents
50 drawings of study sketches for site plans, elevations, and sections.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1960, 1987
box 1, folder 38
Agreement for architectural services between William Pereira and Museum Associates (LACMA)
1960
box 1, folder 39
Victor Cusack's letter regarding LA TImes review
1987
Scope and Contents
Clippings and manuscript of Cusack's letter to the
Los Angeles Times, regarding the review by the LA Times critic, John Dryfuss of the architectural design by Pereira.
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
circa 1954-2004
1980-1982
box 4
Chronology of the Master Plan development
circa 1980
flatfile FF
LAX Terminal building schematic
not after 1954
drawer 589, flatfile 23
LAX West Terminal building original concept sketch
circa 1955
drawer 589, flatfile 25
LAX Master Plan
1952
Creator: Pereira and Luckman, Architects, Engineers and Planners
Scope and Contents
19 drawings and schematics of site plans for LAX.
box 1, folder 51
West Terminal building
circa 1980-1982
Scope and Contents
Photographs and printed ephemera
box 1, folder 52
West Terminal and Theme building
circa 1980-1982
Scope and Contents
Clippings, photographs, printed ephemera
box 1, folder 53
Dana Goodyear, "Hotel California," profile of Paul Revere Williams in
New Yorker
box 1, folder 54
Accounts of the LAX Theme building
Scope and Contents
Clippings and printed ephemera
box 2
Victor Cusack and Harrison Lewis Whitney, "An Illustrated Account of the conception, development and construction of the Theme
building, LAX," manuscript
circa 2004
Scope and Contents
Early manuscript for the book eventually published by the Flight Path Museum, 2005.
box 1, folder 29
Los Angeles Music Center proposal
circa 1952
Scope and Contents
printed ephemera
drawer 589, flatfile 28
MCA/ Universal City Cinema Complex (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1981
Creator: Pereira, William L.
Scope and Contents
49 drawings of sketch studies of site, plot, and floor plans, sections, and elevations for various schemes.
box 1, folder 47
Occidental College Administration and residence buildings
1968
Scope and Contents
Printed ephemera and photographs; William Pereira & Associates, Victor Cusack designer.
drawer 589, flatfile 19
Pacific Mutual Building 505 Sansome St. (San Francisco, Calif.)
1975
Creator: William Pereira Associates
Scope and Contents
Photocopied drawings, photographs, annotations
drawer 589, flatfile 30
Pereira & Luckman offices 9220 Sunset Blvd. (Los Angeles, Calif.)
undated
Creator: Pereira and Luckman, Architects, Engineers and Planners
Scope and Contents
One drawing of front elevation.
box 1, folder 32
Resort development master plan, Malaga Spain
1954-1955
Scope and Contents
Photographs of preliminary design: site plan and perspectives.
Rissman, Robert house (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1948-1949
Scope and Contents
3 drawings on trace, mounted on separate boards: perspective, plan, revised plan and perspective.
drawer 589, flatfile 2
Ross, John G. house High Farms Rd. (West Hartford, Conn.)
1941
Scope and Contents
17 drawings of plans, sections, elevations, and details.
box 1, folder 42
Santa Monica Airport complex
1963
Scope and Contents
Photographs of model. Charles Luckman, architect; Victor Cusack, designer.
box 1, folder 21
Small Hillside House, by Victor Cusack, published in
Arts & Architecture
1946
drawer 589, flatfile 26
Stephens, Mrs. V.E. house (Malaga, Spain)
circa 1955
Scope and Contents
4 drawings of plans, sections, and elevations.
TransAmerica building Annex (San Francisco, Calif.)
1975
drawer 589, flatfile 29
Unidentified Office building (Ontario, Calif.)
1982
Creator: William Pereira Associates
Scope and Contents
2 drawings of elevations.
box 1, folder 30
Union Oil Center building (Los Angeles, Calif)
1952-1957
Scope and Contents
Photographs, drawings, notes, printed ephemera.
drawer 589, flatfile 15
Union Oil Company building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
1963
Creator: Charles Luckman Associates
Scope and Contents
Elevation, bird's eye view perspective, and site plan (reproductions). Victor Cusack chief designer for William Pereira. Project
later credited to Charles Luckman Associates when Luckman bought out Pereira.
drawer 589, flatfile 20
University of California, Irvine, Faculty Club
1977
Scope and Contents
One copy of drawings of elevations.
box 1, folder 36
University of California Santa Barbara Master Plan: photograph of rendering
circa 1959
box 1, folder 50
University of Southern California, Hydrocarbon Institute
1979
World's Fair, American Pavilion (Flushing, NY)
1962-1964
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Victor Cusack for Charles Luckman and Associates.
box 1, folder 41
Photographs of drawings, sketches, printed ephemera
drawer 589, flatfile 14
Drawings and sketches
Scope and Contents
3 sketches of perspective drawings.
Publications IV.
circa 1960-circa 1990
Physical Description: 0.5 Linear Feet(1 box)
Scope and Contents
This series contains both published works and printed manuscripts in bound and unbound form.
box 5
Los Angeles International Airport by William Schoneberger, Ethel Pattison, Lee Nichols, and Flight Path Learning Center of Southern California
2009
box 5
Building Program: West Terminal Los Angeles Interational Airport by Pereira, Dworsky, Sinclair, Williams
1981
box 5
Design Development: Los Angeles International Airport West Terminal by Pereira, Dworsky, Sinclair, Williams
1981
box 5
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Program Definition Study by William L. Pereira Associates
1980
box 5
Pereira: 50th Anniversary Retrospective by Ray Cunneff
circa 1981
Scope and Contents
Box also includes rough draft of book.
box 5
"Third Annual Design Competition Awards: Long Range Planning for Medical Care Facilities in the Community"
1961
box 5
William Pereira edited by James Steele
2002
box 5
A Symbol of Los Angeles: The History of the Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport 1952-1961 by Victor A. Cusack and Harrison Lewis Whitney
2005
box 5, folder 1
Ephemera for A Symbol of Los Angeles book
2004-2009