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Cesar Pelli

Postmodern and Contemporary Architecture

Cesar Pelli (1926 to 2019) was an Argentine-born American architect who designed some of the world's tallest buildings and many urban landmarks. Born in San Miguel de Tucuman, he studied at the Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, took a master's degree at the University of Illinois, and worked for Eero Saarinen for ten years before leading design at Gruen Associates and serving as dean of the Yale School of Architecture from 1977 to 1984. His best known works are the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, completed in 1997, the World Financial Center in New York and the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. The American Institute of Architects awarded him its Gold Medal in 1995, and his firm became Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects in 2005.

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Birth Year
1926 1
Death Year
2019 1
Practice Type
Individual 2
Classification
Award
AIA Gold Medal 1
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In Style

Modernist Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Carnegie Hall Tower (Wikipedia)

Influenced By

Eero Saarinen, Architects and Designers
Source Cesar Pelli (Wikipedia)
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Nationality

Argentina

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1. Cesar Pelli (Wikipedia)
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    César Pelli (October 12, 1926, July 19, 2019) was an Argentinian and American architect
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    awarded him the AIA Gold Medal in 1995
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    was an Argentinian and American architect
  • Influenced By: Eero Saarinen, Career, Early years
    Pelli worked for Eero Saarinen in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, for ten years
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César Pelli (October 12, 1926, July 19, 2019) was an Argentinian and American architect who designed some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks.
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Carnegie Hall Tower (Wikipedia)
In Style: Modernist Architecture, Carnegie Hall Tower article, critical reception, Douglas Davis in Newsweek
Quote, In Style: Modernist Architecture, Carnegie Hall Tower article, critical reception, Douglas Davis in Newsweek
Unlike the postmoderns, Pelli pushed the new technology of glass, plastic and wafer-thin stone to its limit-part of what he called 'extreme modernism
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