In Memoriam: Cornelius Michael Deasy, FAIA
Last Updated: August 30, 2010
Deasy, Cornelius Michael
August 14, 2010
Cornelius Michael (Neil) Deasy, 92, died in his sleep at his home in San Luis Obispo on August 14, 2010. His three daughters were with him when he passed away. His wife had died in 2008, the 67th year of their marriage.
He was born in Mineral Wells, TX, graduated in architecture from USC in 1941 and served in the Navy in the South Pacific in WWII. In Southern California he built a number of buildings reflecting the materials and clean lines of the Bauhaus but focusing on usefulness by humans, as reflected in his books, "Design For Human Affairs" (1974) and "Designing Places For People" (1985). His projects included the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association Building in Sherman Oaks, Booth Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles, Grossmont Center in San Diego, Sylmar Pool in Los Angeles, El Segundo Junior High School and Porterville Memorial Auditorium. He was a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and was active in community affairs through Los Angeles The Beautiful and his program on local public television. In the mid-1970s he sold his interest in his architectural firm, Deasy and Bolling, and designed and built a home on farmland in San Luis Obispo, where he taught at Cal Poly and, on his farm, ran a commercial popcorn operation.
Survivors are his three daughters, Diana Creighton of Oracle, Arizona; Carol Brown of Piedmont, California; and Ann Holly of Atascadero, California; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The family suggests donations to The Arbor Day Foundation.
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