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William Pereira, the Glossary

William Leonard Pereira (April 25, 1909 – November 13, 1985) was an American architect from Chicago, Illinois, who was noted for his futuristic designs of landmark buildings such as the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco.^[1]

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American people of Azorean descent
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Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

The Academy Award for Best Visual Effects is presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) for the best achievement in visual effects.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Anaheim, California

Anaheim is a city in northern Orange County, California, United States, part of the Greater Los Angeles area.

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Art Deco

Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.

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Bespoke

The word bespoke has evolved from a verb meaning 'to speak for something', to its contemporary usage as an adjective.

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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a non-profit, tertiary, 915-bed teaching hospital and multi-specialty academic health science center located in Los Angeles, California.

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Century of Progress

A Century of Progress International Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States, from 1933 to 1934.

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Charles Luckman

Charles Luckman (May 16, 1909 – January 26, 1999) was an American businessman, property developer, and architect known for designing landmark buildings in the United States such as the Theme Building, Prudential Tower, Madison Square Garden, and The Forum. William Pereira and Charles Luckman are university of Illinois School of Architecture alumni.

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Chet Holifield Federal Building

The Chet Holifield Federal Building, colloquially known as "the Ziggurat Building", is a United States government building in Laguna Niguel, California. William Pereira and Chet Holifield Federal Building are William Pereira buildings.

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Disneyland Hotel (California)

The Disneyland Hotel is a resort hotel located at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, owned by the Walt Disney Company and operated through their Experiences division. William Pereira and Disneyland Hotel (California) are William Pereira buildings.

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FamilySearch

FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization and website offering genealogical records, education, and software.

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Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations.

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Frank Gehry

Frank Owen Gehry (born February 28, 1929) is a Canadian-born American architect and designer. William Pereira and Frank Gehry are architects from Los Angeles, Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, Jewish architects and Postmodern architects.

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From This Day Forward

From This Day Forward is a 1946 American drama film directed by John Berry and starring Joan Fontaine, Mark Stevens and Rosemary DeCamp.

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Geisel Library

Geisel Library is the main library building of the University of California, San Diego. William Pereira and Geisel Library are William Pereira buildings.

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Gin D. Wong

Gin Dan Wong (September 17, 1922 – September 1, 2017) was a Chinese-born American architect based in Los Angeles, California. William Pereira and Gin D. Wong are architects from Los Angeles and Fellows of the American Institute of Architects.

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Hal Pereira

Hal Pereira (April 29, 1905 – December 17, 1983) was an American art director, production designer, and occasional architect. William Pereira and Hal Pereira are American people of Portuguese descent, American people of Portuguese-Jewish descent and American production designers.

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Ian McHarg

Ian L. McHarg (20 November 1920 – 5 March 2001) was a Scottish landscape architect and writer on regional planning using natural systems.

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Irvine, California

Irvine is the largest city and a master-planned city in central Orange County, California, United States, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

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J. W. Robinson's

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Jane Eyre (1943 film)

Jane Eyre is a 1943 American film adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name, released by 20th Century Fox.

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Johnny Angel

Johnny Angel is a 1945 American film noir directed by Edwin L. Marin and written by Steve Fisher (adapted by Frank Gruber) from the 1944 novel Mr.

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List of William Pereira buildings

This is a list of buildings designed in whole or in part by architect William Pereira. William Pereira and list of William Pereira buildings are William Pereira buildings.

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. William Pereira and los Angeles County Museum of Art are William Pereira buildings.

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Los Angeles International Airport

Los Angeles International Airport is the primary international airport serving Los Angeles and its surrounding metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of California.

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Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is a regional wholesaler and the largest supplier of treated water in the United States.

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Motion Picture & Television Fund

The Motion Picture & Television Fund (MPTF) is a charitable organization that offers assistance and care to those in the motion picture and television industries and their families with limited or no resources, including services such as temporary financial assistance, case management, and residential living.

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Paul R. Williams

Paul Revere Williams, FAIA (February 18, 1894 – January 23, 1980) was an American architect based in Los Angeles, California. William Pereira and Paul R. Williams are architects from Los Angeles and Fellows of the American Institute of Architects.

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Pepperdine University

Pepperdine University is a private research university affiliated with the Churches of Christ with its main campus in Los Angeles County, California.

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Pereira & Luckman

Pereira & Luckman was a Los Angeles, California architectural firm that partners Charles Luckman and William Pereira founded in Los Angeles in 1950.

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A planned community, planned city, planned town, or planned settlement is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land.

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Portuguese people

The Portuguese people (– masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country in the west of the Iberian Peninsula in the south-west of Europe, who share a common culture, ancestry and language.

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Reap the Wild Wind

Reap the Wild Wind is a 1942 American adventure film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Ray Milland, John Wayne, and Paulette Goddard, with a supporting cast featuring Raymond Massey, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Susan Hayward and Charles Bickford.

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Since You Went Away

Since You Went Away is a 1944 American epic drama film directed by John Cromwell for Selznick International Pictures and distributed by United Artists.

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Southern California

Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California.

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Television City

Television City, alternatively CBS Television City, is an American television studio complex located in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, California, United States. William Pereira and television City are William Pereira buildings.

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The Princeton Review

The Princeton Review is an education services company providing tutoring, test preparation and admission resources for students.

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The Woodlands, Texas

The Woodlands is a special-purpose district and census-designated place (CDP) in the U.S. state of Texas in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area.

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Theme Building

The Theme Building is a structure at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), considered an architectural example of the Space Age design style. William Pereira and Theme Building are William Pereira buildings.

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This Gun for Hire

This Gun for Hire is a 1942 American film noir crime film directed by Frank Tuttle and starring Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, and Alan Ladd.

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Transamerica Pyramid

The Transamerica Pyramid is a pyramid-shaped 48-story modernist skyscraper in San Francisco, California, United States, and the second tallest building in the San Francisco skyline. William Pereira and Transamerica Pyramid are William Pereira buildings.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California.

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University of Illinois School of Architecture

The University of Illinois School of Architecture is an academic unit within the College of Fine & Applied Arts at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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University of Southern California

The University of Southern California (USC, SC, Southern Cal) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Welton Becket

Welton David Becket (August 8, 1902 – January 16, 1969) was an American modern architect who designed many buildings in Los Angeles, California. William Pereira and Welton Becket are architects from Los Angeles and Fellows of the American Institute of Architects.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pereira

Also known as Pereira, William, William L. Pereira, William Leonard Pereira.

William Pereira, the Glossary

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See also

American people of Azorean descent

American people of Portuguese-Jewish descent

People associated with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

University of Illinois School of Architecture alumni

William Pereira buildings

References