I.M. Pei went to the United States in 1930s and studied architecture at MIT and Harvard University.
The American architectural community declared 1979 as "I.M. Pei Year", and won the gold medal of American Architectural Society, French Architectural Gold Award 198 1, Imperial Japan Award 1989, the 5th Pritzker Award 1983 and 65438.
I.M. Pei's works are mainly public buildings, cultural and educational buildings, which are classified as modernist buildings and make good use of steel, concrete, glass and stone. His representative works include the expansion of the Louvre in Paris, the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong and the new Suzhou Museum.
20 19 On May 6th, I.M. Pei died in a hospital in Manhattan, new york at the age of 102.
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Characteristics of I.M. Pei's Architectural Art
Characteristics of light: light is the color of architecture, and "let light design" is a famous saying of Bayesian. In his works, the combination of light and space makes space change endlessly. "Light is very important. Without the change of light, the body will lose its vitality and the space will be weak. " I.m. Pei's first consideration when he started construction.
Glass and steel: Because of the characteristics of glass itself-transparency and reflectivity, the transparency of glass will not block and detract from the facade of the original building, which not only conforms to Bayes' pursuit of sunshine, but also makes the original building complex not weakened in vision and space principle, so that the designer's architectural ideas can be fully expressed. Coupled with light and human movement, the whole space is endowed with vitality.
Clever application of condensation: Bayesian pays attention to the study of concrete, excavates its mechanical characteristics and visual expression, integrates structure and decoration in architectural design, and is faithful to the expressive force of material texture, thus pushing the application of concrete to a new height.
Geometric structure: I.M. Pei has made immortal contributions to the development of geometric structure of modernist architecture. If Mies and Corbusier made great achievements in refining geometry, I.M. Pei enriched the geometric composition on the basis of inheriting modernist architects, thus opening up a new road for rigid modernist architecture.
Reference source-Baidu Encyclopedia-I.M. Pei