Title & Author:

The Dangers of Style / [presented by] Ieoh Ming Pei.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1955.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (31 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Glass Pyramid & New Entrance To The Musee Du Louvre, Paris By Ieoh Ming Pei, 1989. The Spiral Staircase & A View Of The Louvre North Wing -- 860 & 880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Chicago By Mies van der Rohe, 1951 -- US National Bank Of Denver, Mile High Center, Denver, Colorado By Ieoh Ming Pei 1956 -- 1965. Entrance Canopy -- National Bank Of Commerce, Lincoln, Nebraska By Ieoh Ming Pei, 1976. Exterior -- Kips Bay Plaza Housing, New York By Ieoh Ming Pei, 1962. Facade & Detail -- Des Moines Art Center Extension, Des Moines, Iowa By Ieoh Ming Pei, 1968. Interior Of Gallery -- Washington Square East Housing, Society Hill, Philadelphia By Ieoh Ming Pei, 1964. Three Residential Towers -- National Center For Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado By Ieoh Ming Pei, 1967 -- Glass Pyramid & New Entrance To The Musee Du Louvre, Paris By Ieoh Ming Pei, 1989. The Glass Pyramid In The Court Napoleon, From The West -- Glass Pyramid & New Entrance To The Musee Du Louvre, Paris By Ieoh Ming Pei, 1989. The Spiral Staircase & A View Of The Louvre North Wing -- The John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts By Ieoh Ming Pei, 1979. Lobby Interior -- L'Enfant Plaza, Washington, D.C. By Ieoh Ming Pei, 1968 -- John Hancock Tower, Boston, Massachusetts By Ieoh Ming Pei, 1976. Night View -- National Airlines Terminal, Kennedy Airport, New York By Ieoh Ming Pei, 1970 -- Paul Mellon Art Center. Wallingford, Connecticut By Ieoh Ming Pei, 1972 -- Herbert F. Johnson Museum Of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York By Ieoh Ming Pei, 1973.

Summary:

One of the foremost architects of his generation, Ieoh Ming Pei's reputation rests on buildings such as the John Hancock Tower in Boston, the Mile High Centre in Denver, the Louvre in Paris and the Bank of China in Hong Kong. While he kept faith with the founding principles of the International Style, he applied them to buildings that were all his own. In this talk, part of a series conducted by the architectural publisher John Peter from the 1950s onward, Pei discusses the enduring influence of Frank Lloyd Wright, the crucial distinction between having a style and designing with style in mind, the limits to technology's influence on architecture, French hostility towards his Louvre redevelopment, and the difference between the European and American traditions: "they built Rolls Royce, we built Ford".

Subject:

Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.

Added entries:

Pei, I. M., 1917-2019, narrator.
Peter, John, 1917-1998, narrator.