Cesar Pelli was born in 1926 in Tucumán, Argentina. After graduating from the University of Illinois, he worked, most notably, in the offices of Eero Saarinen and at Gruen Associates. In 1977 he became Dean of the School of Architecture at Yale University and established Cesar Pelli & Associates in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1995, [...]
To celebrate Mario Botta’s 60th birthday on April 1, here are some gems culled from his comments during our Lugano interview in March 2000. The excerpts are from Churches, HarperCollins, 2001. To quote you, dear Mario, “architecture lasts more than the life of man. This is the measure of a man’s life and his mark.” [...]
[This essay comprises the Foreword to 1000 New York City Buildings by Jorg Brockmann and Bill Harris, Black Dog & Leventhal. May 2002] Tall masts of Mannahatta! Superb-faced Manhattan! Beautiful hills of Brooklyn! Vast, unspeakable show and lesson! My city! Has anyone since Walt Whitman done justice to the ecstatic inventory of New York? This [...]
