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049			_aCARIBET
050			_aNA737.P365 _bI26 2024
110			_aSurya, Shirley _9303060
245			_aI. M. Pei : _blife is architecture. / _cedited by Shirley Surya & Aric Chen ; [translations: Charles Lai, Chun Wai, Joanna Wong]. _htxt
246			_aLife is architecture _htxt
264			_aLondon : _bThames & Hudson, _c2024.
300			_a400 p. : _bill. ; col. ; plans ; maps ; _c31 cm. _fbook
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediaded _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
501			_aPublished on the occasion of the exhibition held at M+, Hong Kong 29 June 2024 to 5 January 2025.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aForeword Suhanya Raffel 6 -- Introduction: Architecture is Life Shirley Surya & Aric Chen 8 -- 1 Transcultural Foundations ‘I don’t think I shall feel strange in a strange land’ 14 – The American Education of I.M. Pei Joan Ockman 42 -- 2 Real Estate & Urban Redevelopment ‘We are going to change all this’ 48 – I.M. Pei and Urbanism in North America, 1948-1960 Eric Mumford 100 -- 3 Art & Civic Form ‘The play between solids and voids’ 104 -- I.M. Pei’s Museum of Chinese Art, Shanghai: Modernism between East and West Barry Bergdoll 144 -- 4 Material Structural Innovation The totality of the form’ 148 – I.M. Pei and the Tools of Invention Janet Adams Strong 224 -- 5 Power, Politics & Patronage ‘I had a client from beginning to end’ 228 -- OCBC Centre: The Iconic Turn of the Singapore Model of Asian Global Capitalism Jiat-Hwee Chang 288 -- 6 Regenerating Cultural & Historical Archetypes ‘Like embedded rocks and rooted trees’ 292 -I.M. Pei and Chinese Spatiality at Expo ’70 Wu Kwang tyng 363 -- I.M. Pei’s Pictorial Vision of Space Liu Linfan 366 -- Timeline of I.M. Pei’s Life and Work 369 -- Notes 382 -- Selected Bibliography 386 -- Contributors 391 -- Acknowledgements 392 -- Image Credits 394 -- Index 396 --
520			_a "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." -- Provided by publisher
546			_aIn English, contains some text translated from the Chinese.
650		0	_aChinese American architects _9303061 _vBiography. _xExhibitions.
710			_aChen, Aric _9303062
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