At the age of 92, the famous architect Cesar Pelli passed away

The famous Argentinean architect Cesar Pelli, recognized worldwide for works such as the Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (the tallest building in the world until the early 2000s), has died today at the age of 92 years.

Born in Tucumán, Pelli has developed his entire professional career in the United States, a country in which he settled in the 1950s.. Since 1977, he has managed the architectural firm Pelli Clarke Pelli in New Haven, Connecticut.

In addition to the Petronas Towers, the World Financial Center in New York is another of his most notable works., completed in 1988. In Buenos Aires, most of the most prominent corporate buildings bear their signature: the Republic Building (Tucumán 1), the BankBoston Tower (in the Catalinas region), the YPF Tower in Puerto Madero East and the recent tower. from Banco Macro, also to Catalinas.

In Mar del Plata, Pelli's workshop outlined its contours in the complex of the Maral Explanad towera, on the Peralta Ramos Boulevard facing the sea, in full execution.

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Pelli was one of the most recognized architects in the world. After receiving the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning from the University of Tucumán in 1950, he moved to the United States. a year later, when he won a scholarship to perfect himself in Illinois. Between 1952 and 1962, he worked in the Eero Saarinen studio on projects such as the TWA Terminal at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. Then, in the following years, he undertook two more studies until he founded his own company in 1997.

The first relevant work of his study was the renovation of the Museum of Modern Art in New York., in the early 80s. He was Dean of the School of Architecture of Yale University between 1977 and 1984. and has received 12 honorary doctorates and over 200 awards of excellence for his creations, including the brilliant Konex in 2012 in Argentina.

"An architect intervenes in different places where he must be respectful and humble. The buildings do not belong to the architects, they belong to the place, the city, its past and its future, "Pelli explained in an interview with the newspaper Clarín. in September 2015.