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Cesar Pelli
1926 • Argentinian • Architect
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Collected Meditations
Showing 25 quotesWe 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
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
I'm a very good listener, and I'm not interested in having fights simply for a question of protocol or vanity.— Cesar Pelli
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