Cesar Pelli Professions : Architect Born : October 12, 1926 Browse All Authors Top 28 quotes by Cesar Pelli I would have loved to be the designer of the Capitol of the United States. I would love to do some important major public building. Cesar Pelli loved building important love We are very proud of our design for the Transbay Transit Center. This will be a beautiful, functional and sustainable building for San Francisco. Cesar Pelli building design proud beautiful I'm a bad customer for my own buildings! If I'm choosing an apartment, I choose one about five or six stories high so that I can see the people, the trees, and the world on the street. Beyond that, I lose contact with the ground! Cesar Pelli street lose people world I needed to understand the spirit of a tall building, what makes it important, what should I try to achieve in a tall building. It became a very interesting problem, something that I like very much. Cesar Pelli understand building important problem I'd never known of an architect as a young man. I think there was only one architect in Tucuman. Cesar Pelli young-man never think man I had come from Los Angeles - I had been there a partner of Gruen Associates, a large Los Angeles firm - and when the possibility of becoming a dean at Yale came, it was a very appropriate moment in my life. I was interested in a number of issues that I could not pursue while in a firm like Gruen's. Cesar Pelli partner my-life moment life When one deals with urban issues, one never deals with clear black-and-white issues; they're all trade-offs. Important urban issues present conflicting values. Cesar Pelli present never values important We try to respond as closely as we can to the nature of each city, to the traditions, to their expectations. I don't believe that architects should be imposing their style or their plans on every city in the world. Cesar Pelli city style nature world Similar Authors Ben van Berkel architect Bruno Zevi architect Bruno Freschi architect Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin architect Arthur Erickson architect Arne Jacobsen architect All Authors