Gaetano Pesce

He is an architect, artist and designer based in New York, and has turned his hand to architecture, urban planning, interior and exhibition design, industrial and editorial design. He has worked on public and private projects (condominiums, parks, offices) in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia.
Born in La Spezia in 1939 he studied architecture at the University of Venice. He has lived in Padua, Venice, London, Helsinki, Paris, and since 1980, New York. He has held lectures and conferences at the most prestigious international institutions and is a member of the Institut d’Architecture et d’Etudes Urbaines in Strasbourg.
His most famous projects include Les Halles in Paris (1979), the renovation of the FIAT Lingotto factory in Turin (1983), the Organic Building in Osaka (1993), the Gallery Mourmans in Belgium and the Shuman residence in New York (1994).
His works were exhibited in a large retrospective at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris in 1996 and are part of the permanent collections of important museums in Paris, Finland, Italy, Portugal, Great Britain and the United States.
His work is recognized for its emotive and tactile qualities, an extensive use of color and an insistence on innovative building materials, developed using new technologies.