Content Description
Arrangement
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine
Libraries
Title: Alberto F. Treviño, Jr. papers
Identifier/Call Number: MS.R.186
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear Feet
(1 record center box; 1 telescoping box; 1 OS folder)
Correspondence, photographs, and one oversize laminated collage of
clippings.
Date (inclusive): 1960-2014
Condition Description: The
collection is in good condition. Box 2 includes three albums and one framed
photograph.
Language of Material:
English .
Content Description
This collection documents various aspects of Alberto F. Treviño's career. He was a
principle planner with the Irvine Company from 1961-1965. Treviño is perhaps best known for
his role in spearheading the design and planning for Fashion Island shopping center in
Newport Beach, California as well as the University Park and Turtle Rock neighborhoods in
Irvine, California. He was also the principle planner for Laguna Niguel, California from
1958-1960 and served as assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development under presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and George W. Bush. Treviño was the
vice president of the Walt Disney Company from 1974-1975.
The collection includes correspondence, photographs, memos, meeting notes, project
brochures, and personal material. The bulk of the collection is correspondence and
photographs with White House officials. The collection also includes correspondence with
members of the Walt Disney Company and materials related the Department of Housing and
Development Soul City project.
Arrangement
Box 1: "Old Spanish and Mexican Ranchos of Orange County", 1961 General Electric Planning
Presentation, 1966 Concept Environment, Inc. 1970 Department of Housing and Development
(Soul City), 1970-1974 Department of Housing and Urban Development (General), 1972-2002
Costa Rica Conference, 1972 Loose Correspondence 1973-2005 Miscellaneous, 1970- 87 "75 Years
of Landscape Architecture at Berkeley", 1988 Clippings, 2000-14 Loose Photographs
Box 2: 3 Albums 1 Framed photograph
Box 3: Laminated collage clippings
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Orange County (Calif.) -- Planning -- 20th century