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Landscape architecture -- California, Southern -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Emmet Wemple papers

 Collection
Identifier: 4001
Abstract USC alumnus Emmet Wemple was an influential landscape architect based in Southern California. Wemple and his firm Emmet L. Wemple & Associates had participated in an impressive array of national and international projects, including those for civic master planning, academic institutions, commercial and retail facilities, hotels, convention centers, museums, libraries, residences, housing developments and recreational facilities. Spanning from the 1960s to 1995, the bulk of the collection...
Dates: 1960 - 1996; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1995

William L. Pereira & Associates records

 Collection
Identifier: 0326
Abstract The William L. Pereira & Associates records consist of architectural plans, materials for presentations to clients, site studies, project workbooks, and interim reports documenting the majority of the firm's projects from 1960 to 1989. William Leonard Pereira, who had already been working as an architect in Chicago and Los Angeles since the early 1930s, founded the company in 1958. William L. Pereira & Associates designed over 300 buildings, including the Transamerica Pyramid in San...
Dates: 1939 - 2022; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1980