Pereira, William L. and Associates Planning and Architecture (Practice)

click to open gallery Construction photo of the monolithic reinforced concrete trusses supporting the theatre roof, Grauman's Metropolitan Theatre, Los Angeles, c. 1922; from "Great Balcony in New Grauman Theater Shows Slight Deflection under Test," Southwest Builder and Contractor, no. 1527, 06/30/1922, p. 15
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Frank Dimster, Aldo J. Genova, Mark Joseph Hepp, R. Scott Johnson, William Leonard Pereira, James M. Sink

Active 1958-1985

Pereira's main office was located in Los Angeles, CA;

PCAD id: 50

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Buildings and other works

NameDateCityState
611 Place, Downtown, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
909 Fannin Street Office Building, Downtown, Houston, TX1974HoustonTX
Anglo and London Paris National Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA1908-1910San FranciscoCA
Braille Institute, Los Angeles, CA1974Los AngelesCA
Citicorp Tower, San Francisco, CASan FranciscoCA
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA1937-1938Los AngelesCA
County of Los Angeles, Museum of Art (LACMA) #1, Los Angeles, CA1963-1964Los AngelesCA
Doheny Plaza Center, West Hollywood, CAWest HollywoodCA
Fox Plaza, Century City, Los Angeles, CA1986-1987Los AngelesCA
Gibraltar Savings and Loan Association, Main Office, Beverly Hills, CA1958Beverly HillsCA
Grauman's Metropolitan Theatre and Office Building, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA 1921-1923Los AngelesCA
Great Western Financial Corporation, Great Western Savings and Loan, Center Building, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
Hollywood Center ProjectHollywood, Los AngelesCA
Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Museum ProjectHollywood, Los AngelesCA
Houston Center, Houston, TXHoustonTX
Lytton Building, Los Angeles, CA1968Los AngelesCA
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, Building, Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, CA1970-1971Los AngelesCA
Nissan Motors, Engineering Center, Los Angeles, CALos AngelesCA
Petroleum Research Institute, Caracas, VenezuelaCaracas
Saint Francis Hotel #3, Union Square, San Francisco, CA1906-1907San FranciscoCA
Social Security Administration, West Programs Center, Richmond, CARichmondCA
Times-Mirror Company, Los Angeles Times Building #4, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA1931-1935Los AngelesCA
Town Center Hall, Santa Fe Springs, CA1970-1971Santa Fe SpringsCA
Transamerica Corporation, Office Building #2, San Francisco, CA1972San FranciscoCA
Union Oil Company of California (UNOCAL), Research Center, Brea, CA 1950-1951
United States Government, Federal Office Building, Holifield, Chet, Building, Laguna Niguel, CA1971Laguna NiguelCA
United States Government, Postal Service (USPS), Post Office, Rincon Annex, San Francisco, CA1939San FranciscoCA
United States Navy (USN), Clinic, San Diego, CA1979
University Road Center, Doha, QatarDoha
University of California, Irvine (UCI), Langson Library, Irvine, CA
University of California, Irvine (UCI), Long Range Development Plan, Irvine, CA1960-1963IrvineCA
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Dickson Hall, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA1965Los AngelesCA
University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Geisel, Audrey and Theodor, Library, La Jolla, CA1965-1969San DiegoCA

Publications

"Brick Institute of America advertisement", AIA Journal, 79, 10/1977. Britton, James II, "Evaluation: Lantern-like Library Held Aloft on Concrete Fingers", AIA Journal, 66: 9, 30-35, 08/1977. American Architects Directory 1962, 544, 1962. "Executone sound chosen by all 17 airlines at new Los Angeles International Airport", Architectural Forum, 14-15, 07/1962. "As it must to all buildings", Architectural Forum, 91: 6, 112, 12/1949. "Remodeled Theatre", Architectural Forum, 76: 391-395, 6/1942. Parman, John, "Utopia Revised", Architecture, 79: 1, 66-67, 1990-01. "Four projects of Pereira Associates", Architecture + Urbanism (A + U), 4: 187, 16-18, 4/1986. "Four projects of Pereira Associates", Architecture + Urbanism (A + U), 4: 187, 16-18, 04/1986. "Four projects of Pereira Associates", Architecture + Urbanism (A + U), 4: 187, 16-18, 4/1986. "Four projects of Pereira Associates", Architecture + Urbanism (A + U), 4: 187, 16-18, 4/1986. Antoniades, Anthony C., Architecture and Allied Design: An Environmental Perspective, Second Edition: 67, 1986. Neuman, David J., Building Type Basics for College and University Facilities, 6, 8, 2003. Pereira, William L., Central Library University of California San Diego August 1969, 08/1969. Free, David, "UCSD Geisel Library honored", College and Research Libraries News, 69: 8, 438, 2008-09. Koenig, Gloria, "Book Look Iconic LA: Stories of LA's Most Memorable Buildings", Echoes, 36, 88, 05/2001. Robinson, Judith H., Foell, Stephanie S., Growth Efficiency and Modernism: GSA Buildings of the 1950s 60s and 70s, 80-81, 9/2003. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Guide to Architecture in San Francisco and Northern California, 65, 1985. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Guide to Architecture in San Francisco and Northern California, 71, 1985. Bopp, Gordon R, Handbook for Academic Planning, University of California Irvine, 1969. Fox, Stephen, Houston Architectural Guide, 41, 1990. "Editor's Asides", Journal of the American Institiute of Architects, 8: 3, 142, 9/1947. "Meanwhile, on a Front Other than the West", Journal of the American Institute of Architects, 46: 3, 24, 09/1966. Chase, John, "Rincon Center", Landscape Architecture, 79: 7, 64-66, 09/1989. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Town Center Hall, 1971", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 310, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Los Angeles Times Building", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 237, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 196, 1994. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 193, 1994. "Braille Institute, Los Angeles", Los Angeles Times, part VI E: 1, 5/17/1974. Redstone, Louis G., New Downtowns, 138-141, 1976. Delahanty, Randolph, Preserving the West, 60-61, 1985. "Hollywood Motion Picture and Television Museum Project", Progressive Architecture, 42: 2, 60, 2/1961. Brand, Stewart, "Vinge's Singular Vision", Technology Review, 109: 3, 87, 07-08/2006.
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