**Catalog Record for Victor Gruen Papers (Changed fields for links to
online finding aid in** bold**)**

LC Control Number:mm 92081474

00006225cpca 2201129 a 450

0015811426

00520020411141754.0

**007cr\|\|\|\|**

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035\_\_ \|9 (DLC)mm 92081474

906\_\_ \|a 7 \|b cbc \|c orignew \|d u \|e ncip \|f 19 \|g

y-manuscri

010\_\_ \|a mm 92081474

040\_\_ \|a DLC \|c DLC \|d DLC \|e appm

072_7 \|a L \|2 lcmd

090\_\_ \|a 0808S

090\_\_ \|a OVSD

090\_\_ \|b Microfilm 21,147-1N-1P (Playbills)

1001\_ \|a Gruen, Victor, \|d 1903-

24500 \|a Papers, of Victor Gruen \|f 1886-1991 \|g (bulk

1960-1980)

300\_\_ \|a 30,450 \|f items.

300\_\_ \|a 88 \|f containers plus \|a 83 \|f OVSD.

300\_\_ \|a 1 \|f microfilm reel.

300\_\_ \|a 123.6 \|f linear feet.

5208\_ \|a Personal and business correspondence, project

files, speeches, writings, biographical material, and

> scrapbooks documenting Gruen\'s career in architectural

design, city planning, and environmental counseling,

with special emphasis on architectural and land use

projects undertaken from 1960 to 1980 by his firms,

Gruen Associates, headquartered in New York and Los

Angeles, and Victor Gruen International, centered in

Vienna, Austria. Project files are most extensive for

design of the Université Catholique de Louvain in

Belgium and the city plan for Vienna, Austria. The

firm\'s efforts to revitalize the central business

districts of Fort Worth, Tex., Rochester, N.Y.,

Kalamazoo, Mich., Boston, Mass., Fresno, Calif.,

Urbana, Ill., and other American and European cities

are also documented. Other topics include planning new

towns, regional planning, general land development,

public housing projects, and designs for college

campuses. There is also material on the establishment

of the Victor Gruen Foundation for Environmental

Planning in Los Angeles and its sister organization,

Zentrum für Umweltplanung in Vienna. Gruen\'s personal

and family life are also well documented.

> 5208\_ \|a Business associates represented include Rudolf L. Baumfeld,
> John Belle, Jack Beyer, Daniel Branigan, Sydney H. Brisker, Edgardo
> Contini, Mel Gooch, Herman Guttman, Abbott Harle, Frank E. Hotchkiss,
> Ki Suh Park, Cesar Pelli, John Richard Pointer, Sylvia Press, Allen
> Rubenstein, Rolf Sklarek, Ben Southland, David Travers, Karl Van
> Leuven, Marge Wheaton, and Beda Zwicker.

530\_\_ \|a Microfilm edition of several playbills

(1939-1940) for performances by the Refuge Artists

Group and by the American Viennese Group, Inc.

available, \|d no. 21,147.

533\_\_ \|a Microfilm reproduced by Photoduplication Service

from originals in the Manuscript Division, 1994.

541\_\_ \|c Gift, \|a Mrs. Victor Gruen, \|d 1992.

541\_\_ \|c Transfer, \|a Library of Congress Prints and

Photographs Division, \|d 1992.

5450\_ \|a Designer, architect, and urban planner; born in

Vienna, Austria, as Victor David Grünbaum; changed name

after emigrating to the United States in 1938; returned

to Vienna in 1967, where he died in 1980.

**5558\_ \|a Finding aid available in the Manuscript Reading**

**Room and on Internet.**

590\_\_ \|a MSS81474

60010 \|a Baumfeld, Rudolf L., \|d d. 1988.

60010 \|a Belle, John.

60010 \|a Berg, Betty \|v Correspondence.

60010 \|a Beyer, Jack.

60010 \|a Branigan, Daniel.

60010 \|a Brisker, Sydney H., \|d 1914-

60010 \|a Contini, Edgardo.

60010 \|a Gooch, Mel, \|d 1923-

60010 \|a Gruen, Margaret, \|d 1944- \|v Correspondence.

60010 \|a Gruen, Michael Stephen, \|d 1941- \|v

Correspondence.

60010 \|a Guttman, Herman, \|d 1918-

60010 \|a Harle, Abbott, \|d 1923-

60010 \|a Hotchkiss, Frank E.

650_0 \|a Architectural firms \|z New York (State) \|z New

York.

650_0 \|a Architecture.

650_0 \|a Central business districts.

650_0 \|a Cities and towns.

650_0 \|a City planning \|z Austria \|z Vienna.

650_0 \|a City planning \|z California \|z Fresno.

650_0 \|a City planning \|z Illinois \|z Urbana.

650_0 \|a City planning \|z Massachusetts \|z Boston.

650_0 \|a City planning \|z Michigan \|z Kalamazoo.

650_0 \|a City planning \|z New York (State) \|z Rochester.

650_0 \|a City planning \|z Texas \|z Fort Worth.

650_0 \|a College buildings \|z Belgium.

650_0 \|a Environmental engineering.

650_0 \|a Land use.

650_0 \|a Public housing.

650_0 \|a Real estate development.

656_7 \|a Architects. \|2 itoamc

656_7 \|a City planners. \|2 itoamc

852\_\_ \|a Library of Congress \|b Manuscript Division \|e

Washington, D.C.

**8564\_ \|3 Finding aid \|u**

**http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001017**

985\_\_ \|e MSS.

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