I.M. Pei designed the Kennedy Library, which was the idea of the President's wife Jacqueline. She appreciates the East Pavilion of the National Art Museum designed by I.M. Pei, which was recently completed in Washington. When the Kennedy Library was selected, it was originally chosen at Harvard University. I don't know why, maybe it's from Harvard University itself, maybe it's the city government of Cambridge, maybe it's afraid that the chewing gum chewed by too many visitors will pollute the environment. Anyway, it was finally rejected. Finally, she accidentally discovered a garbage dump on the Dorchester waterfront, which inadvertently made Pei's masterpiece. Now she is recognized as one of the best attractions in Boston.

According to Jacqueline's suggestion and I.M. Pei's understanding, the original intention of Kennedy Library was to make it a public cultural center, not a private territory. So there is not even a statue of Kennedy in front of the building. The exhibition content of the library is also consistent with the building itself, not to praise and publicize, but to make people as immersive as possible. A large number of images of Kennedy himself are used in the museum. Let me start with his own historical materials.

The library is not on the same level, and some spaces are lower than the ground, leaving the most emotional factors in the building on the surface. The library consists of a triangular tower with a height of 10 (mainly used for document placement, education and administrative management), an exhibition base on the second floor (exhibition base and a 300-seat theater) and a commemorative curtain with a height of 1 10 feet. The whole arrangement is harmonious.