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Born October 12, 1926 in San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina -
He earned a master's in architecture in 1954 -
In 1964, he became director of design at Daniel, Mann, Johnson and Mendenhall in Los Angeles -
In 1965, Pelli designed the Sunset Mountain Park Urban Nucleus -
Pelli designed his first landmark building with the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, California -
In 1977, Pelli was selected to be the dean of the Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut -
the construction of the Wells Fargo Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1989. -
Pelli was named one of the ten most influential living American Architects by the American Institute of Architects in 1991 -
In 1995, he was awarded the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal -
Pelli received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the design of the Petronas Towers -
Pelli designed the master plan for Cira Centre South, the tallest building dedicated to student housing in the United States. -
In May 2008, Pelli was given an honorary Doctor of Arts degree by Yale University. -
In 2012, the three-building Pacific Design Center, which Pelli designed 40 years earlier while at Gruen Associates, was completed with the addition of the Red Building -
In 2018, the Salesforce Tower and the first phase of the adjacent Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco were completed. -
On July 19, 2019, it was reported that Pelli had died at the age of 92[