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ARCH. CESAR PELLI.

12/12/2013

        Cesar Pelli was born in Argentina in 1936 where he earned a Diploma in Architecture from the University of Tucuman. He emigrated to the United States in 1952 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1964. He married Diana Balmori, renowned landscape and urban designer. 
 
     Pelli served as dean of the School of Architecture at Yale University from 1977 to 1984. His firm employs about 100 architects, designers, and support staff in New Haven, Connecticut. After completing his Master's degree in architecture, Pelli spent ten years working in the offices of Eero Saarinen. He served as Project Designer for the TWA Terminal Building at JFK Airport in New York and Morse and Stiles Colleges at Yale University

HIS CONCEPTS IN DESIGNING.

      Mr. Pelli has no formalistic preconceptions in his designs. Pelli believes form-giving needs to continuously test itself against the possibilities of construction or it degenerates. He believes that buildings should be responsible citizens and that the aesthetic qualities of a building should grow from the specific characteristics of each project such as its location, its construction technology, and its purpose.
     Cesar Pelli is often praised for using a wide variety of materials and designs, seeking new solutions for each location. Believing that buildings should be "responsible citizens," Cesar Pelli strives to design buildings that work within the surrounding city.
    Pelli construction systems create buildings that are essentially like one-room structures made with frames of branches or cane, covered with thin, flexible enclosures of glass, skins, and textiles. Pelli points out that these adaptable structures provide more shelter per unit of effort, and are more ecologically benign, than any other form of construction.

HIS ARCHITECTURAL STYLE.

    Though Pelli trained as a modern architect in the 1950s and was influenced by Eero Saarinen, he remains unclassifiable. Pelli does not have a readily identifiable style; working within a modernist idiom, he strives to adapt each project appropriately to its culture, function, and site. 

   Pelli was known for the lightweight, almost tentlike, appearance of his buildings, which were often surfaced in glass or a thin stone veneer.

   His projects displayed a fascination with abstract, crystalline glass shapes shot through with lines of coloured stone or metal. Among his best-known works are the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles.
 
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     His style began to be enriched by an investigation of the gestural and sculptural possibilities of the cladding, particularly the nature of glass as a transparent and reflective material.

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