The architect
Gaetano Pesce was born in 1939 in La Spezia, Italy. He attended the school of Architecture of Venice from 1958 to 1963. He has lived in many European cities – Padua, Venice, London, Helsinki, Paris – and since 1980, in New York. His multidisciplinary work is present in the permanent collections of Museums in France, Finland, the United States, England, Portugal and Italy. Gaetano Pesce has been teaching for twenty-six years at the École d’Architecture de Strasbourg and has lectured in the most prominent Universities and Cultural Institutions around the world. He has worked in France, Italy, Japan, Germany, the United States, Brazil and Belgium. Pesce’s works are often memorable for their ability to give an unexpected twist to favorite themes: the “diversified series”, the twin functionality of objects and architecture, the creative use of colour, the political dimension of the project, the theory and practice of the “poorly executed”, the use and development of synthetic materials, the theory of the “femininity” of architectural projects and the “culture of objects”.