"It was one step away from arbitrary that he chose architecture. He was looking at a catalog from the university of all the different fields, and he was interested in philosophy, but he chose architecture, because in the catalog it said it combined art history, drawing and mathematics. And he thought, 'Well, those are all things I like to do, and I'm good at it. I think that could be fun,'"
"My father was in his early 20s. My mother was in her late teens, and my mother was just pregnant. They came on a one-year scholarship to the University of Illinois, and they decided to risk this big adventure,"
"Cesar Pelli is known as one of the greatest architects of the 20th century, but to Rafael Pelli, he was simply "Papa." "I loved working with my father. I was lucky,""
Cesar Pelli created the Salesforce Tower, becoming one of the foremost architects of the 20th century. His son Rafael remembers intensive early exposure to design, drawing, and model-making and describes collaborative work with his father. Pelli was raised in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, and nearly pursued philosophy before selecting architecture for its blend of art history, drawing, and mathematics. A 1950s scholarship brought Pelli and his young family to the University of Illinois, a risky one-year academic move that shaped his career. Pelli died in 2019 at age 92, and family ties to Argentina remained important.
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