About:

A multi-faceted designer, Gaetano Pesce produces work in painting, sculpture, film, theater, design, architecture, and urban planning.
Trained in Venice, he was a founding membersof the Group N fine arts group interested in programmed art, an idea that had emerged
from the Bauhaus. He has taught at Cooper Union, the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies in Strasbourg, and at the Domus
Academy in Milan.

Books:

Vanlaethem, France. Gaetano Pesce: architecture design art. Foreword by Michael Sorkin. New York : Rizzoli, 1989.  N6923.P39 V36 1989.

Pesce, Gaetano. Gaetano Pesce, Le futur est peut?etre passe = Gaetano Pesce, The future is perhaps past : Centre de Creation
Industrielle, Etablissement Public du Centre Beaubourg, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris 8 Janvier?9 Mars 1975.  Centre Beaubourg, 1975.
On Reserve.
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Books listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.
 

Articles:  (Selected from 1994-2002)

"Gaetano Pesce - Zerodisegno: "Nobody's Perfect." Finessi, Beppe.,Abitare, no.416, pp.172-176, Apr 2002.

"Forget your troubles, come on, get happy." Pittel, Christine. House beautiful, vol.142, no.6, pp.166-[173],
June 2000. (Inter-Library Loan)
    Note: Park Avenue apartment of client Ruth Lande Shuman with flamboyant interiors by
                       Gaetano Pesce. (Avery Index Online)

"Gaetano Pesce: la Chiesa per l'Isolamento: the Church for Isolation." / Stefano
Casciani. Abitare 1999 May, n.384, p.98,156?158.

"Connecting ... with industry." / Ted Gachot. Metropolis 1997 May, v.16, n.9, p.88?91,129.

"De Giorgi Laudani Romanelli: un semilvorato per opere d'arte = A semifinished
product for works of art." Domus 1997 Apr., n.792, suppl., p.58?59.

"Gaetano Pesce: creatività italiana in Giappone = Italian creativity in Japan." Domus 1997 Apr., n.792, suppl., p.116?117

"Gaetano Pesce a Bruxelles: negozio plastico per bambini." / Marta Laudani. Abitare 1996 Feb., n.348, p.146?155.

"Gone fishing: Gaetano Pesce and his ideas." / Craig Kellogg. Oculus 1996 Dec., v.59, n.4, p.7?8.

"L'incerto, inevitabilmente = The uncertain, necessarily [exhibition review]." / François Barré. Domus 1996 Nov., n.787, p.53?57.

"Pesce?Greenaway." / Attilio Stocchi. Abitare 1996 Oct., n.355, p.187?[189].

"Rainbow warrior." / Penny McGuire. Architectural review 1995 Jan., v.197, n.1175, p.58?[61].

"Gaetano Pesce: l'invention utile." / Brigitte Fitoussi. Architecture d'aujourd'hui 1995 Feb., n.297,
 p.[102]?103

"Les moyens de son époque: entretien avec Gaetano Pesce [interview]." / Brigitte Fitoussi.
 Architecture d'aujourd'hui 1995 Feb., n.297, p.104?109.

"Climbing the walls: Gaetano Pesce's visionary high?rises burst into flower." / William
Bryant Logan. Garden design 1995 Feb.?Mar., v.13, n.7, p.37?39, ISSN 0733?4923.

"Gaetano Pesce: Organic building a Osaka, Giappone."  Abitare 1994 Apr., n.328, p.156?[159].

"Going turfless [Chiat Day offices, New York]." / Ziva Freiman. Progressive architecture 1994 Oct., v.75, n.10, p.[88]?95.
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Articles listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.
 

Web Sites:

Gaetano Pesce's firm. www.gaetanopesce.com/
Offers his biography as well as his projects by decade, type, or subject.

Architronic.com.  www.architonic.com
Search under "design museum" and then under his name to find a number of his design items pictured and described.

DesignBoom.com.  www.designboom.com/eng/interview/pesce.html
A 2000 interview with the designer.
 

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Judy Connorton
February  2005

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