Cesar Pelli: Architect (Signed)
Tokyo: a + u Publishing Co., Ltd., 1985.
Hardcover.
Signed by the architect on the first free endpaper. July 1985 Extra Edition. Text in Japanese and English.
Monograph of the work of Argentine American modern architect Cesar Pelli (1926-2019). Pelli started his career with a job working with Eero Saarinen in Bloomfield, Michigan and subsequently moved to Los Angeles where he was Director at Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall (DMJM) and a partner at Gruen Associates. In 1977, he became Dean of Yale School of Architecture and established his own firm (Cesar Pelli & Associates) shortly after moving to New Haven. Pelli’s design of the Museum of Modern Art expansion and renovation and the MOMA Residential Tower were completed in 1984, the same year Pelli stepped down as dean. Among the projects Pelli was involved in at the time of the publication of this volume was The World Financial Center in Battery Park in Lower Manhattan.
This work includes an introduction by Yoshio Yoshida; a biography of Cesar Pelli; essays by Esther McCoy, Cesar Pelli, John Pastier, & Gavin Macrae-Gibson; a discussion of works before establishing Cesar Pelli & Associates (at DMJM and at Gruen Associates), and works after establishing Cesar Pelli & Associates (including Long Gallery House, New Orleans Tower, World Financial Center, and MOMA), including an Architectural Data List.
Item #9022928-5/8 x 11-1/2", dark blue cloth with light blue titles, gray endpapers, 232pp, fully illustrated in color and black and white.
Rubbing to cloth, clean of owner's marks, square, tight, internally bright, very good overall.
Price: $65.00