Victor Gruen Collection, 1952-1968

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Victor Gruen Collection, 1952-1968

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Victor Gruen (1903-1980) was an architect. He established Victor Gruen Associates in Los Angeles (1951) and designed shopping centers, including Northland Center in Detroit, Southdale Center in Minneapolis, The Mall in Fresno, California and Midtown Plaza in Rochester, New York (1962), the first inner-city enclosed mall. The collection consists of published articles by and about Victor Gruen.

1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

eng,

University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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Gruen, Victor, 1903-1980

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Victor Gruen (1903-1980) was born Victor David Gruenbaum in Vienna, Austria. He worked as an architect in Vienna until 1938 when he emigrated to the U.S. to escape World War II. He first worked as a set and store designer in New York City and then established Victor Gruen Associates, one of the nation's leading architectural, planning and engineering firms. Gruen Associates designed the first regional shopping center, the Northland Shopping Center in Detroit in 1954 and the first fully enclosed ...