2326. Los Angeles International Airport. The Theme Building.

 

Dear Bob,

Mirroring the alien invaders in the 1954 movie

The War of the Worlds, where his brother Hal worked

as Art Director, futuristic architect William Pereira

designed the "Theme Building" for the new LAX

Airport trying to evoke the image of a flying saucer 

landing on its four legs.

Happy new year,

R

1587. The Transamerica Pyramid

Dear Juan,

"William Pereira is one of those modernist who truly shaped postwar California. His buildings did as much as those of any architect to give modern architecture public face and to make it the symbol of the new world taking form in California in the nineteen-forties, fiftties, ans sixties" (Paul Goldberger)

Sincerely,
R

1523. Central University Library. University California San Diego

Dear Mary,

"Those who plants trees love others besides themselves"
(Thomas Fuller)
"A book holds a house of gold" (Chinese proverb)

Sincerely,
R

763. The Central University Library, UC San Diego

Dear Louis,

The iconic Brutalist Geisel Library (originally 

Central Library) located on the main campus of 

the University of California, San Diego, was 

rededicated in 1995 in honor of children's author 

Theodor Seuss Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss). The original 

idea for this library conceived by architect William Pereira was a treelike building including a spherical
books repository resting at the top of a massive 

structural trunk.
In one of the most popular children's books written 

and illustrated by P.D. Eastman and named 

Go, Dog. Go! all kind of different dogs run to a big 

dog party held on top of a tree.

Happy birthday Louis!

P