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Gaetano Pesce was born in La Spezia, Italy in 1939 and studied Architecture at the University of Venice. He has lived in New York for the past 32 years. Pesce has worked on private and public projects in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia. He taught at the Institut d’Architecture e d’Etudes Urbaines in Strasbourg, France, at the Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, PA, at the Domus Academy in Milan, at the Polytechnic of Hong Kong, at the Architectural School of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and at The Cooper Union in New York City. Pesce exhibits his work worldwide. In 1996, the Pompidou Centre in Paris presented an exhibition that showcased 40 years of his work. In 2005, the Triennale di Milano organized a retrospective of his work, which was also shown at the Vitra Museum in Germany. Pesce’s most well-known architectural commissions include the Hubin’s Apartment in Paris (1986), the Organic Building in Osaka (1989-93), the Shuman’s residence in New York (1994) The city of Osaka, declared Pesce’s Organic Building, with its vertical garden upon the façade as a ‘civic landmark’ in 1994 and the Manhattan office for advertising agency TWBA/Chiat Day, was hailed by the New York Times as ‘a remarkable work of art ... that bears no resemblance to the sleek, hard- edged aesthetic we associate with the modern.