Frank O. Gehry and Associates drawings for the Santa Monica Place, 1979-1980

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Summary

Title:
Frank O. Gehry and Associates drawings for the Santa Monica Place (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Dates:
1979-1980
Creators:
Frank O. Gehry Associates. and Gehry, Frank O., 1929-
Extent:
3.0 Linear feet 2 oversize rolls of drawings
Language:
Preferred citation:

Frank O. Gehry and Associates drawings for the Santa Monica Place, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Background

Scope and content:

One complete set of architectural drawings in the form of reprographic copies (A1-A31) and five original drawings on trace (third floor plan, second floor plan, zone map, and second floor plan). Both the reprographic copy set and the original drawings are oversized, and are stored on separate oversized rolls.

Biographical / historical:

Frank Owen Gehry was born on February 28, 1929 in Toronto, Canada. He graduated from the University of Southern California’s School of Architecture in 1951. Gehry went on to study city planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, from which he graduated in 1957. Over the course of his career Gehry worked for many well known architects, including: Hideo Dadaki, Pereira and Luckman, Victor Gruen, Andre Remondet, before opening his own practice in 1962. Starting in the 1970s up through the 1980s, Gehry taught, at the University of Southern California, the University of California, Los Angeles, Yale University, and Harvard University.

Custodial history:

Gift of Environmental Design Archives, UC Berkeley; 2013.

Physical location:
ADC/ oversize rolls (2)
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by ADC Staff
Sponsor:
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.
Date Prepared:
03/03/2015
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2019-08-21T09:46-0700

Access and use

Restrictions:

Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.

Preferred citation:

Frank O. Gehry and Associates drawings for the Santa Monica Place, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.

Location of this collection:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7130, US
Contact:
(805) 893-2724
adc@museum.ucsb.edu
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