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Leviseur, Elsa, b.1932

 Person

Biographical Note

Elsa Leviseur is an architect of Los Angeles, California, born in South Africa in 1932. She earned a B. Arch. at the University of Cape Town School of Architecture in 1954 and a M. A. in Architecture and Urban Planning from the University of California at Los Angeles Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning in 1980. She has been principal of Leviseur Architects in Santa Monica, California, since 1983. She was Principal of Architerra in Los Angeles from 1986 to 1989 and Project Manager of The Tanzmann Associates from 1980 to 1983. She worked in other architects offices and in private practive in England from 1960 to 1969 and in South Africa from 1954 to 1959.

Leviseur taught at Manchester Polytechnic in England in the early 1990s, and at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1984 to 1989. She has been a member of the Association for Women in Architecture since 1974 (she served as President in 1978), and was a founding member of Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility and member since 1984

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Landscape Architectural Drawing, Entrance Patio for Stiehm, September 26, 1975 (Ms1990-007)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1990-007_LeviseurElsa_LandscapeArchitecturalDrawing_1975_0926

Landscape Architectural Drawing, New Yard Layout House Mendelsohn, Westwood, March 1975 (Ms1990-007)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1990-007_LeviseurElsa_LandscapeArchitecturalDrawing_1975_03

Landscape Architecture Sketch, n.d. (Ms1990-007)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1990-007_LeviseurElsa_LandscapeArchitectureSketch_nd

Elsa Leviseur Architectural Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-007
Abstract

Elsa Leviseur was born in 1932 and practiced architecture and landscape architecture in South Africa, England, and California. Her projects include designs for the Hollywood Bowl and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association in California. Papers consist of files, photographs, specifications, and architectural drawings of designs done mostly in the 1980s.

Dates: 1950 - 1990

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Digital Record 4
Collection 1
 
Subject
Architectural drawings (visual works) 4
Women -- History 4