Master Designer

Cesar Pelli, right, leads the team selected to serve as master designers for Duke University's new Central Campus. His colleagues from Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects include, from left, Mitch Hirsch, Fred Clarke, Celia Toche and Gina Narracci.

Krzyzewskiville at Night

As master designer, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects (PCPA) will develop an overall vision for the campus and its architecture that embody the program of an integrated academic community.

Cesar Pelli founded the New Haven firm when he was Dean of Architecture at Yale. The firm was the national American Institute of Architects (AIA) "firm of the year" in 1989 and Cesar received the AIA gold medal in 1995.

Among the firm's iconic works are the Petronas Towers in Malaysia, the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. and the winter garden at the World Financial Center and the expansion of the Museum of Modern Art, both in New York City. PCPA also designed a series of highly regarded arts and performance spaces. The firm's campus work includes projects at Rice, Yale, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Universities of California, Illinois, Texas and Washington.

The firm has done design work previously for Duke, creating the sports "quad" that includes the Wilson, Schwartz-Butters and Sheffield buildings plus the area known as "Krzyzewskiville."