Cesar Pelli was born on October 12th, 1926. Pelli was raised in the small provincial city of Tucuman in the northwestern part of Argentinian. Pelli’s father was a municipal civil servant and his mother was a teacher. Cesar Pelli had a regular and happy childhood. As a kid, Pelli spent much of his time doing drawings and constructions of forts, towers, bridges and many more structures. Pelli finished high school at the age of 16 and needed to make his career decision. In Argentina one has to choose his/her career right after high school because there is no such thing as a liberal arts education. Pelli did not have a good grasp as to what career to pursue, but after researching what university has to offer, he decided architecture will be his career. Cesar Pelli enrolled at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. At the university Pelli indulged in drawing, history, painting, mathematics, and art. At the university, Pelli truly realized his love and talent for architecture. Even though Cesar Pelli was enjoying the university and architecture, he was worried how useful architecture will be in his hometown. Fortunately, him and other bright architects transformed the school, which resulted in practical options for Pelli and his hometown. The group of architects started designing hospitals, schools, all sorts of realistic and functional structures that could be completed in Tucuman.
After Pelli graduated from the university, he began to teach at the school. Along with being a teacher, he also found a job with a large state organization. At the organization, Pelli was in charge of the design department. At that time Argentinian was one of the richest and most advanced countries in the world so Pelli was very proud of his position. Pelli d...
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...oject by project basis. He is able to adapt to his surroundings, environment, purpose, and client extremely well. This rare trait allowed him to be a part of many different projects. Even though he does not have one style, Cesar Pelli is known as a tall building architect. This is quite ironic because of Cesar Pelli’s personal preference. Pelli claims to like museums and other noncommercial, nongovernmental commissions. His reasons for liking these projects are very interesting. Pelli enjoys working on projects that house art because it means that his clients have a higher understanding on what architecture is all about. He also claims that government projects can get too complicated because sensible aspects might get denied simply because they do not fit a code. As I stated before this is very ironic because Cesar Pelli is known for his tall commercial buildings.
Antoni Gaudi was born June 25th 1852 and lived until 1926. His name is Catalan with Gaudi being the family name and Cornet being the second. Gaudi was best known for being a practitioner of Catalan Modernism. The style of Gaudi was individualism and distinctive. Architecture, nature, and religion were Gaudi’s passion in life, which influenced a lot of his work. Gaudi liked to interpret his creations into his architecture for many to see the unique ceramics, stained glass, wrought ironwork and carpentry. What’s interesting about Gaudi is that he did not like to plan his work out but liked to make three-dimensional scale models. Many people liked his architecture because of the organic and natural styles conceived. Gaudi’s work became interesting around 1984 because he interpret religious imagines into his work and earned himself the name “God’s Architect”. His work deserves to be globally popular and
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