Cesar Pelli

摘要

People of world renown often come from the unlikeliest places. Cesar Pelli grew up in the small provincial city of Tucuman in northwestern Argentina. "The city is on the plains," he says. "From Tucuman to the Atlantic Ocean it is all relatively flat, but just west of Tucuman are the Andes. You always knew where the west was because there was the tall line of mountains. I realize now that the presence of those mountains was quite uplifting." Pelli had a happy, unpressured childhood in a home where his father was a municipal civil servant and his mother a teacher. They "had a sizable library," he remembers, "and I went through all of their books. I particularly loved art books with pictures. I was fascinated. I was a voracious reader."