Cesar Pelli

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Cesar Pelli was born in Argentina in 1926 and married in 1950. He got his bachelors degree in architecture at the National University of Tucumán in Argentina. Pelli moved to the United States in 1952. In 1954 Cesar received his masters in architecture from the University of Illinois. After collage he went to work with Eero Saarinen who later would become his partner. In 1977 he formed his own firm Cesar Pelli and Associates in New Haven Connecticut. In that same year he was named Dean of the Yale School of Architecture where he stayed until 1984. He was awarded the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1995. Pelli designs several sketches, which allows client’s to choose their favorite one. I think this makes him a unique architect. He likes to add a blend of the present to his client’s choice. "My works are formulated in the spirit of the present", Pelli says. He changes his design tastes to correspond with certain characteristics such as site, climate, and the building’s purpose. I think Pelli design taste for the present pushes the future to the next level.


Most of his buildings have a blue, brown, bronze, mirrored, opaque, and transparent metallic look for the exterior. "I am interested in expressing the exteriors of buildings as enclosures for controlled living environments." Pelli also uses colored brick, limestone, aluminum, and steel for exterior materials along with his favorite, glass. He pays great attention to designing every building with unique detail.
Pelli has designed many famous buildings. He says "Cities are our most important responsibility. They are the whole of which our buildings are the parts. Making a building one with its place has been a constant goal of architecture throughout the ages. Technological and cultural changes have weakened this relationship, and it is the responsibility of each one of us today to consider it in our
work. " Some of Pelli’s most f...