Cesar Pelli famous quotes

03-28-2025

The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits.
-- Cesar Pelli

#Rivers #Ambitious #Limits
Im particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations to the public, and our opportunities to do so are many.
-- Cesar Pelli

#Believe #Opportunity #Play
I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.
-- Cesar Pelli

#Cities #Design #Trying
I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.
-- Cesar Pelli

#Design #Looks #Next
When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.
-- Cesar Pelli

#School #Design #Knack
Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.
-- Cesar Pelli

#Optimism #Matter #Construction
When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.
-- Cesar Pelli

#Art #School #Careers
There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to Sept. 11.
-- Cesar Pelli

#Departure #May #Able
My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.
-- Cesar Pelli

#Children #My Children #Building
The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together.
-- Cesar Pelli

#Block #Together #World
I realize that having a style would be very beneficial for my practice from a marketing standpoint, but I can't do it. I believe my responsibilities as an architect are to design the most appropriate building for the place. Each place has a distinct culture and function, which for me requires an appropriate answer.
-- Cesar Pelli

#Believe #Responsibility #Practice
One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.
-- Cesar Pelli

#Ideas #America #People
The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.
-- Cesar Pelli

#Running #Bad Ass #Sky

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