Résumé

Director of Design, OFEMPE, (Argentinian governmental organization), Tucumán, Argentina, 1950-1952.

Project Designer/Associate Architect, Eero Saarinen and Associates, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 1954-1964; for Saarinen, he assisted on the Morse and Stiles Residential Colleges (1961) at Yale University, New Haven, CT, and TWA Terminal (1962) at Idlewild (later John F. Kennedy) Airport in New York, NY.

Director of Design, Daniel, Mann, Johnson and Mendenhall (DMJM), Los Angeles, CA, 1964-1968.

Partner for Design, Gruen Associates, Los Angeles, CA, 1968-1977.

Pelli moved to New Haven, CT, in 1977 to assume his position as Dean of the School of Architecture at Yale University. While here, he started his own private practice on the East Coast.

Principal, Cesar Pelli and Associates, New Haven, CT, 1977-2005; Partner, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, New Haven, CT, and New York, NY; in 2011, the New Haven Office was at: 1056 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT 06510, tel: 203.777.2515; New York Office: 322 8th Avenue, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10001; tel: 212.417.9496.

Partner, Pelli Clarke Pelli, Architects, New Haven, CT, 2005-2019.

Teaching

Visiting Professor, University of Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina, 1960.

William B. and Charlotte Shepherd Davenport Visiting Professor, School of Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1972;

William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor, School of Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1974.

Visiting Professor, School of Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Westwood, Los Angeles, CA, 1975-1976.

Dean, School of Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1977-1984.

Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1999.

Professional Activities

Member, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Southern California and New York Chapters.

Pelli was the author of the book, Observations for Young Architects, (New York: Monacelli Press, 1999).

Professional Awards

Design Award, Progressive Architecture, DMJM project, 1966.

American Institute of Architects (AIA), Southern California Chapter, Honor Awards, Los Angeles, CA,1968, 1969, 1975 (2), 1976;

Recipient, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize, New York, NY, 1978.

Fellow, American Institute of Architects (FAIA), 1980.

Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY. 1982.

Recipient, Connecticut Commission on the Arts Award, 1988.

Recipient, AIA, Firm Award, 1989.

Honorary Doctorate, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT), Tucumán, Argentina, 1989.

Member, National Academy of Design, New York, NY, 1990; Honorary Doctorate, University of New Haven, New Haven, CT, 1990; Honorary Doctorate, Pratt Institute, New York, NY, 1990; Recipient, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Gold Medal, 1995; Recipient, Aga Khan Award for Architecture, for the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2004. Honorary Doctor of Arts for work in Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 05/26/2008.

College

Dipl. Arch., University of Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina, 1944-1949.

M.S., Arch., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1952-1954.

Relocation

Born in Tucuman, Argentina, Pelli came to Champaign-Urbana, IL, to attend the University of Illinois in 1952.

Upon graduation, he obtained employment with Eero Saarinen and Associates, Bloomfield Hills, MI, and then with DMJM in Los Angeles, in 1964.

Pelli underwent naturalization in 1964.

He moved to New Haven, CT, to become Dean, School of Architecture, Yale University, from 1977-1984.

Spouse

Pelli married Diana Balmori (1932-2016), a noted urban and landscape historian and landscape designer in 1950.

Children

Two children: Denis who became a neurobiologist and Professor at New York University and Rafael, who became an architect and partner of his father's.

• Tucuman, Tucuman Argentina (Architect's Birth)
  Tucuman, Tucuman Argentina

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  The City of Tucuman is known formally as San Miguel de Tucumán.

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