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  • I.M. Pei, World-Renowned Architect, Is Dead at 102

    05/17/2019 3:50:21 AM PDT · by C19fan · 27 replies
    NY Times ^ | May 16,2019 | Paul Goldberger
    I. M. Pei, who began his long career designing buildings for a New York real estate developer and ended it as one of the most revered architects in the world, died early Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 102. His death was confirmed by his son Li Chung Pei, who is also an architect and known as Sandi. He said his father had recently celebrated his birthday with a family dinner.
  • National Gallery East Wing crumbling from Pei's inflexibility

    12/12/2009 6:54:54 PM PST · by Lorianne · 21 replies · 1,049+ views
    Greater Washington ^ | December 11, 2009 | Erik Bootsma
    The facade of the I.M. Pei-designed National Gallery East Wing is now crumbling. Catesby Leigh reports in the Wall Street Journal that the building, constructed using an experimental curtain wall system that the architect described as "a technological breakthrough for the construction of masonry walls," has become unstable. The clean lines and solid geometrical forms of the building's design simply could not be interrupted with unsightly expansion joints. I.M. Pei quite simply was shackled to his own modern design, constrained to have large uninterrupted geometries of stone, a technological solution was an absolute necessity. The earlier Main Building, designed by...