Words matter. These are the best Cesar Pelli Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m a very good listener, and I’m not interested in having fights simply for a question of protocol or vanity.
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.
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!
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.
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.
I’m 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.
One of America’s strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.
The truth is I don’t really know where my own interest in tall buildings really comes from. It cannot come from my hometown because there were no tall buildings there!
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.
I’ve always loved three-sided patios. Courtyard plans are very common, but it’s rare that it has one side open.
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.
My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.
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.
I’d never known of an architect as a young man. I think there was only one architect in Tucuman.
Architecture adds dimensions to my life that would be impossible to acquire if I retired. The beautiful thing about architecture is that every project is brand new. I am forced to renew myself with every project. Isn’t that wonderful?
