Visual Materials

Series IV. Project Records

Description

This series forms the bulk of the collection and comprises project files, which may include contracts, specifications, correspondence, drawings, photographs, invoices, research materials, and information about particular rooms or features in a given job; and materials separated from these files by Weil, including photographs, chiefly snapshots of work in progress; rolled drawings; objects, comprising mostly materials fragments and paint samples; and audiovisual and electronic media.

For details about the individual projects including box and folder numbers for papers, drawings, photographs, and other materials; clients and collaborators; addresses and neighborhoods; project dates; scope of Weil's work; titles of reports authored or co-authored by Weil; original architects and historic designations; awards; titles and dimensions of rolled drawings; and other information, please see the Project Index.

Type

Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)

Date

1969-2009

Call number

archWeil

Creator

Series III. Office Records

Visual Materials

This collection contains the personal and professional papers of architect Martin Eli Weil (1940-2009), relating to Weil's work as a restoration architect and consultant in Los Angeles and Southern California. The collection contains correspondence; project and business records; reports; contracts; notes and research files; appointment books; drawings, including approximately 2920 rolled drawings; approximately 5000 photographs, chiefly snapshots depicting work in progress; material samples, including approximately 2000 fragments of wood or other surfaces containing paint samples; and 46 media files documenting the career of Martin Eli Weil; the materials date from 1964 until 2009. Files document 428 individual projects, including Frank Lloyd Wright structures such as Barnsdall Park and Hollyhock House; the restoration of the El Capitan Theater; and jobs undertaken as a consultant for the cities of San Gabriel, La Verne, Porterville, and Monrovia, California. The collection also includes papers reflecting Weil's service as Restoration Services Director for the Restoration Services Division of the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs in Canada from 1971-1978; his work as an instructor in historic preservation at the University of Southern California from 1981-2009; his writing, chiefly as an architecture columnist for the Larchmont Chronicle; his involvement with the Harvard Heights community in Los Angeles, where he lived; and his Master's thesis project.

archWeil

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