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My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Building
Children
My Children
Buildings
Favorites
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The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Running
Bad Ass
Badass
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Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Construction
Matter
Optimism
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I'd never known of an architect as a young man. I think there was only one architect in Tucuman.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Architect
Young Man
Man Young Never
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One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
America
Ideas
New Ideas
Openness
People
People New America
Strengths
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I'm a very good listener, and I'm not interested in having fights simply for a question of protocol or vanity.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Not Interested
Protocol
Listener
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I've always loved three-sided patios. Courtyard plans are very common, but it's rare that it has one side open.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Common
Plans
Open
Side
Rare
Loved
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I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Design
Cities
Contributing
Trying
Try
Buildings
Designs
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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.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Able
Departure
May
Attribute
Codes
Sept
Stylistic
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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.
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Capitol
Designer
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We are very proud of our design for the Transbay Transit Center. This will be a beautiful, functional and sustainable building for San Francisco.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
San Francisco
Functional
Center
Sustainable
Francisco
San
Transit
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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.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Architecture
Design
Looks
Next
Wonderful
Wonderful Things
Project
Forward
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When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Architecture
Design
Knack
School
Designing
Discovered
Remain
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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.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Deals
Urban
Conflicting
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When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Art
Argentina
Careers
Liberal Arts
School
Arts Education
Liberal
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The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Block
Together
World
World Trade
World Trade Center
Together World Me
Scale
Blocks
Center
Occupied
Several
Vertically
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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!
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Hometown
Buildings
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People get very excited about very high elements. That's why Mount Everest is so important - it's not the most difficult mountain, but it's the most famous because it's the tallest.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Elements
Everest
Mount Everest
Mount
Tallest
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I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Moving
Past
Strong
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Im 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.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Opportunity
Believe
Play
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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.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Believe I Believe I Believe That
Architects
Basic
Beyond
Buildings
Particularly
Obligations
Opportunities
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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.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Imposing
Plans
Architects
Closely
Respond
Traditions
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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!
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Apartment
Contact
World Lose People
Buildings
Choosing
Customer
Trees
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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?
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Architecture
Acquire
Brand New
Dimensions
Impossible
Retired
Wonderful
Adds
Beautiful Thing
Brand
Project
Forced
Renew
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The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Ambitious
Excitement
Exploration
Limits
Rivers
Streets
Appear
Beyond
Forms
Center
Connect
Dynamic
Highway
Physical
Reach
River
Surrounding
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Too many architects are just trying to make all of their buildings look like a brand, and that may be good for business, but that is terrible for the cities because they lose character. If I go to Paris, I go to see the beauty of Paris and the coherence of Paris.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Coherence
Architects
Buildings
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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.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Appropriate
Associates
Dean
Firm
Possibility
Pursue
Yale
Life Moment My Life
Partner
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I realize that having a style would be very beneficial for my practice from a marketing standpoint, but I can't do it. I believe my responsibilities as an architect are to design the most appropriate building for the place. Each place has a distinct culture and function, which for me requires an appropriate answer.
Cesar Pelli / Architect
Appropriate
Architect
Believe
Beneficial
Function
Marketing
Practice
Responsibility
Standpoint
Design Believe I Believe
Distinct
Requires
Responsibilities
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