Title & Author:

I. M. Pei : life is architecture / edited by Shirley Surya & Aric Chen ; [translations: Charles Lai, Chun Wai, Joanna Wong].

Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2024.

Description:

400 pages : illustrations (color and black and white) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-391) and index.
Foreword / Suhanya Raffel -- Introduction: architecture is life / Shirley Surya & Aric Chen -- 1. Transcultural foundations: 'I don't think I shall feel strange in a strange land' -- The American education of I. M. Pei / Joan Ockman -- 2. Real estate & urban redevelopment: 'We are going to change all this' -- I. M. Pei and urbanism in North America, 1948-1960 / Eric Mumford -- 3. Art & civic form: 'The play between solids and voids' -- I. M. Pei's Museum of Chinese Art, Shanghai: modernism between east and west / Barry Bergdoll -- 4. Material & structural innovation: 'The totality of the form' -- I. M. Pei and the tools of invention / Janet Adams Strong -- 5. Power, politics & patronage: 'I had a client from beginning to end' -- OCBC Centre: the iconic turn of the Singapore model of Asian global capitalism / Jiat-Hwee Chang -- 6. Regenerating cultural & historical archetypes: 'Like embedded rocks and rooted trees' -- I. M. Pei and Chinese Spatiality at Expo '70 / Wu Kwang-tyng -- I. M. Pei's pictorial vision of space / Liu Linfan -- Timeline of I. M. Pei's life and work -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Image credits -- Index.
In English, contains some text translated from the Chinese.

Exhibitions:

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at M+, Hong Kong 29 June 2024 to 5 January 2025.

Summary:

"I. M. Pei (1917-2019) was one of the world's most influential architects. Born and raised in China, Pei trained and worked in the United States, establishing a practice that spanned seven decades and multiple continents. His legacy includes the realization of some of the most high-profile projects of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, from the modernization of the Louvre in Paris to the design of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. Pei's life and work are explored here through six topics that were central to his unique approach to architecture: transcultural identity, urban redevelopment, art and civic form, material and structural innovation, politics and patronage, and regenerating cultural and historical archetypes. Bringing together previously unpublished archival materials, specially commissioned essays, new photography, and personal contributions from those who knew and worked with Pei, this book presents both celebrated and lesser-known aspects of the architect's life and career while solidifying his position in architectural history and popular culture." -- Back cover.

ISBN:

0500481024 (hardcover)
9780500481028 (hardcover)
9780500966075
0500966079

Subject:

Pei, I. M., 1917-2019 Exhibitions.
Chinese American architects Exhibitions.
Chinese American architects Biography.
Architectes américains d'origine chinoise Expositions.
Architectes américains d'origine chinoise Biographies.
ARCHITECTURE / General.
Chinese American architects
United States

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Biographies
Illustrated works.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Surya, Shirley, editor, writer of introduction.
Chen, Aric, editor, writer of introduction.
Raffel, Suhanya, 1962- writer of foreword.
Ockman, Joan, writer of supplementary textual content.
Mumford, Eric Paul, 1958- writer of supplementary textual content.
Bergdoll, Barry, writer of supplementary textual content.
Strong, Janet Adams, 1951- writer of supplementary textual content.
Chang, Jiat-Hwee, writer of supplementary textual content.
Wu, Kwang-tyng, writer of supplementary textual content.
Linfan, Liu, writer of supplementary textual content.
Lai, Charles. translator.
Wai, Chun. translator.
Wong, Joanna. translator.
M+ (Museum : Hong Kong, China), host institution.

Life is architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main
Copy: 1
Status: On Order