Conversations with I.M. Pei : light is the key / by Gero von Boehm.

Main entry:

Boehm, Gero von, 1954-

Title & Author:

Conversations with I.M. Pei : light is the key / by Gero von Boehm.

Publication:

Description:

125 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 125).
Family Roots -- The Shanghai Years and Early Influences -- The Influence of Music -- The United States -- New York City and Beyond -- The Challenge of the Louvre -- Miho Museum -- Back to the Future: Bank of China, Hong Kong -- Bank of China Building, Beijing -- Design and Style.

Summary:

"I. M. Pei is one of the twentieth century's most celebrated architects, a designer whose sense of form and light has ensured his buildings an iconic status for their innovation and beauty. In this set of interviews with Gero von Boehm, Pei explains in his own words how his fascination with the art of architecture culminated in a career and an oeuvre almost unparalleled in modern building." "This volume presents this master architect in a profoundly personal manner, touching on the influences he gathered in the gardens and cities of his native China, his studies under the great masters of modernism at America's most prestigious universities, and his ascent to the top of his profession in the United States and internationally. Complete with a colorplate section showing Pei's works, a selection of his drawings, and a catalog of his oeuvre, this volume offers a view of a truly extraordinary man. Conversations with I.M. Pei: Light is the Key is as valuable a resource for the general reader as it is for architects and students."--Jacket.

ISBN:

3791321765 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9783791321769 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Pei, I. M., 1917-2019 Interviews.
Pei, I. M. (Ieoh Ming) Interviews.
Pei, I. M., 1917- Entretiens.
Pei, I. M., 1917-2019
Pei, Ieoh M.
Architects United States Interviews.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architectes États-Unis Entretiens.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture
Architects
Architektur
Chinese American architects Interviews.
Architects United States 20th century Interviews.
United States

Form/genre:

Interview
Biographies.
Interviews.
interviews.
History

Added entries:

Pei, I. M., 1917-2019.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213754
Call No.: NA44.P377.9 B6 2000
Status: Available

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