César Pelli

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César Pelli (2010)
Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

César Antonio Pelli (born October 12, 1926 in San Miguel de Tucumán , Argentina , † July 19, 2019 in New Haven (Connecticut) , United States ) was an Argentinian-American architect . He became famous above all for the 452 meter high Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, which were built according to his design .

Life

César Pelli graduated in architecture from the Universidad de Tucumán in 1949 . Three years later he and his wife Diana Balmori, a landscape architect, emigrated to the USA. In 1954 he completed a master's degree in architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . Important teachers and role models were Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as well as Eero Saarinen , in whose architecture office in Bloomfield Hills , Michigan , he worked for ten years. 1964 he became design director in the office of Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall in Los Angeles , and four years later Gruen Associates .

Pelli received a position as dean at Yale University in New Haven ( Connecticut ), where he also founded his own architectural office César Pelli & Associates Architects in 1977 . He died in July 2019 at the age of 92.

Act

In 1968, César Pelli and his colleagues participated as a US- American team in the international competition for an “International Center” ( Vienna International Center as the third UN headquarters at the time ) with an attached “Austrian Congress Center” ( called Austria Center Vienna after it was established ). The Pelli team won the competition (first of four prizes), but for national political reasons, the winning project was finally ranked fourth and was therefore not implemented.

From 1982 he was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters . In 1989 César Pelli was elected a member (NA) of the National Academy of Design in New York . In 1991 he won the competition of the Malaysian state oil and gas company Petronas .

The architectural association Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects planned the office building 15 Penn Plaza in Manhattan , New York City . The construction was supposed to be ten meters lower than the Empire State Building , but has been postponed indefinitely.

Buildings (selection)

Web links

Commons : César Pelli  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c David Henry: "Cesar Pelli, US Architect Who Altered Skylines, Dies Aged 92" , Bloomberg News , July 20, 2019
  2. ↑ Sonja Pisarik: building complex In: profil extra architektur, June 15, 2009, pp. 110–116, here: p. 112. ( full text (PDF; p. 3; 3.5 MB)  ( page no longer available , Search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On the ig-donaucity website . Accessed on August 12, 2012.)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ig-donaucity.info  
  3. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "P" / Pelli, Cesar, NA 1989 ( Memento from January 26, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) (English, accessed on July 6, 2015)
  5. ↑ salta.gov.ar: Convocado por Salta, el arquitecto César Pelli desarrollaría dos obras emblemáticas en la provincia. (Spanish, accessed July 6, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Pelli, César
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pelli, César Antonio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine-American architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH San Miguel de Tucuman , Argentina
DATE OF DEATH 19th July 2019
Place of death New Haven (Connecticut) , United States