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Cesar Pelli, Designer of San Francisco's Sales Force Tower & Iconic Buildings Around the World, Dies at 92 Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects is today, one of the most prolific designers of skyscrapers around the world. Mr. Pelli grew up in northern Argentina. In 1952, he came north to continue his architecture training at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mr. Pelli spent almost 10 years at the Eero Saarinen firm, the great Finnish-American architect then working in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. In 1967, Mr. Pelli took a job in California at a giant architecture and engineering firm known as DMJM. In 1968, he went to work for Gruen Associates, a large Los Angeles-based architecture firm, under whose aegis he designed the Pacific Design Center. In 1976, Pelli was selected as the dean of Yale’s school of architecture. " in buildings like Goldman Sachs in Jersey City, and the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, Mr. Pelli developed a curving tower form that appeared to bend inward gently as it met the sky, a shape that returned to modernism but that replaced sharp edges with a natural, sculptural ease. His late work would increasingly be defined by softly curving facades of glass, and a determination to find quiet, understated but memorable sculptural form, part of a lifelong search for alternatives to the boxy towers of midcentury modernism. " * Cesar Pelli died on Friday at his home in New Haven. He was 92. His wife, the landscape architect Diana Balmori, died in 2016; they were divorced in 2001 yet remained close. He is survived by two sons and two grandchildren. . . . . #cesarpelli #pelliclarkpelli #pelliclarkpelliarchitects #salesforcetower #petronastower #pacificdesigncenter #thebluewhale #universityofillinoischampaign #moma #yale #modernism #architecture #sf #sanfrancisco #sfarchitecture #architects #modern #design #saarinen #eerosaarinen source: @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/arts/cesar-pelli-dead.html (at San Francisco, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0L8Lvgn4oT/?igshid=1pfqot3yy8rez