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