César Pelli was born in Tucumán, Argentina. In 1997 he is named Dean of the Yale University School of Architecture and founds the Pelli Clarke Pelli studio in New Haven, Connecticut, honoured by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) with the Firm Award in 1989. In 1991 the AIA indicates him as one of the ten most influential living American architects.

Pelli Clarke Pelli is a full-service architecture studio with around 80 professionals that has worked for institutional, private and corporate clients, designing large public spaces, museums, airports, academic buildings, laboratories, art and theatrical centres, hotels, offices, residential towers and multipurpose projects. César Pelli’s working approach is based on the personalisation of each individual project, conceived as unique with respect to the characteristics of the client and the content. With this spirit, the firm has realised numerous outstanding buildings in the United States and the rest of the world.