Gruen, Victor 1903- creator mixed material monographic eng 30,450 88 83 1 123.6 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. 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. Personal correspondents include Betty Berg, Margaret Gruen, Michael Stephen Gruen, Hortense Hockett, Horst Jarka, Judith and Richard Kafka, Rita Lawrence, Leopold and Valeska Lindtberg, Harry Lowry, Helen Michaelis, Felix and Hedi Salzer, Valerie and Willy Steiner, and Stewart L. Udall. Open to research. Microfilm edition of several playbills (1939-1940) for performances by the Refuge Artists Group and by the American Viennese Group, Inc. available, no. 21,147. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1994. 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. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001017 Baumfeld, Rudolf L -1988 Belle, John Berg, Betty Correspondence Beyer, Jack Branigan, Daniel Brisker, Sydney H 1914- Contini, Edgardo Gooch, Mel 1923- Gruen, Margaret 1944- Correspondence Gruen, Michael Stephen 1941- Correspondence Guttman, Herman 1918- Harle, Abbott 1923- Hotchkiss, Frank E Jarka, Horst Correspondence Kafka, Judith Correspondence Kafka, Richard Correspondence Lawrence, Rita Correspondence Lindtberg, Leopold Correspondence Lindtberg, Valeska Correspondence Lowry, Harry -1974 Correspondence Michaelis, Helen Correspondence Park, Ki Suh 1932- Pelli, Cesar Press, Sylvia Rubenstein, Allen Salzer, Felix Correspondence Salzer, Hedi Correspondence Sklarek, Rolf Southland, Ben 1917- Steiner, Valerie Correspondence Steiner, Willy J Correspondence Travers, David Udall, Stewart L Correspondence Van Leuven, Karl 1914- Wheaton, Marge Zwicker, Beda Gruen Associates. Université catholique de Louvain (1970- ) Buildings Victor Gruen Foundation for Environmental Planning. Victor Gruen International (Firm) Zentrum für Umweltplanung (Vienna, Austria) Architectural design Architectural firms Austria Vienna Architectural firms California Los Angeles Architectural firms New York (State) New York Architecture Central business districts Cities and towns City planning Austria Vienna City planning California Fresno City planning Illinois Urbana City planning Massachusetts Boston City planning Michigan Kalamazoo City planning New York (State) Rochester City planning Texas Fort Worth College buildings Belgium Environmental engineering Land use Public housing Real estate development Architects City planners mm 92081474 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms001017 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms001017.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001017 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001017.3 Open to research. DLC 921216 20260227111724.0 mm 92081474