Born in La Spezia in 1939, he moved to NY in 1983 to stay there until the end of his days.
(April 3, 2024). I1's work spans the fields of design, art and architecture without distinction.
In a 40-year career, Gaetano Pesce, architect, artist and designer, has carried out public and private projects in the United States, Europe, Latin America and Asia in the field of architecture.
urban planning, interior design, industrial design and exhibitions. During his
Work has expressed the guiding principle that modernism is not so much a style as a method.
interpretation, alluding to a future in which individuality is preserved and celebrated.
He studied architecture at the University of Venice between 1958 and 1963. He participated in Group N, the
The first collective to deal with art programmed on the model of the Bauhaus.
He taught architecture at the Institut d'Architecture et d'Etudes Urbaines in Strasbourg, France,
for 28 years, at the Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, at the Domus Academy in Milan, at the Politecnico di Hong
Kong, the Architectural School of São Paulo and the Cooper Union of New York, where it was established.
since 1980, after living in Venice, London, Helsinki and Paris.
Pesce's work is present in more than 30 permanent collections in the most important museums in the world.
the MoMA of NY and San Francisco, the Metropolitan Museum of NY, Vitra Design Museum in Germany-
nia, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Centre Pompidou, Musée des Arts Décoratifs del Louvre
of Paris. He exhibits his art in all the galleries of the world.
Among his award-winning projects was the Chrysler Award for e-Design Innovation in 1993,
The Architectural and Wohnen Designer of the Year 2006 and the Lawrence J. Israel Prize, the Fashion Institute
of Technology in New York in 2009.
