William Pereira

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American architect architect human urban planner

William Pereira was a prominent 20th-century American architect and urban planner known for his futuristic, modernist designs across major cultural, educational, and commercial projects.

Aliases (1)

William L. Pereira ×2

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American architect → architect → human → urban planner →
coFounded	Pereira & Luckman (architecture firm) →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
designed	CBS Television City, Los Angeles → Geisel Library, UC San Diego → Theme Building, LAX → Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco → University of California, Irvine campus → master plan for the city of Irvine, California → original Los Angeles County Museum of Art campus →
educatedAt	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign →
employer	University of Southern California (as faculty) →
familyName	Pereira →
fieldOfWork	architecture → urban planning →
founded	William L. Pereira & Associates →
genre	futuristic design → modernist design →
givenName	William →
influencedBy	modernism in architecture →
knownFor	campus planning for universities → design of corporate headquarters and commercial buildings → large-scale urban planning projects in California →
movement	futurist architecture → modernist architecture →
name	William Pereira →
nationality	American →
notableProjectType	commercial buildings → cultural buildings → educational buildings →
notableWork	CBS Television City, Los Angeles → Geisel Library at the University of California, San Diego → Los Angeles County Museum of Art original campus buildings → Marineland of the Pacific (former oceanarium in California) → Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport → Transamerica Pyramid → University of California, Irvine campus master plan →
occupation	architect → educator → industrial designer → urban planner →
placeOfBirth	Chicago, Illinois, United States →
style	brutalist elements in some projects → expressive structural forms →
workedIn	Los Angeles, California → San Francisco, California →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Los Angeles County Museum of Art → The Pyramid → Theme Building → Transamerica Pyramid →	architect
Pereira & Luckman ("William L. Pereira") →	associatedWith
Pereira & Luckman ("William L. Pereira") →	foundedBy
William Pereira →	name