I.M. Pei, renowned architect who designed the Louvre Pyramid and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died at age 102.
I.M. Pei , the versatile, globe-trotting architect who revived the Louvre with a giant glass pyramid and captured the spirit of rebellion at the multi-shaped Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died at age 102.
His work spanned decades, starting in the late 1940s and continuing through the new millennium. Two of his last major projects, the Museum of Islamic Art, located on an artificial island just off the waterfront in Doha, Qatar, and the Macau Science Center, in China, opened in 2008 and 2009. At the time, Jacqueline Kennedy said all the candidates were excellent,"But Pei! He loves things to be beautiful." The two became friends.
But Mitterrand and his supporters prevailed and the pyramid was finished in 1989. It serves as the Louvre's entrance, and a staircase leads visitors down to a vast, light-drenched lobby featuring ticket windows, shops, restaurants, an auditorium and escalators to other parts of the vast museum. No challenge seemed to be too great for Pei, including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which sits on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Pei, who admitted he was just catching up with the Beatles, researched the roots of rock 'n' roll and came up with an array of contrasting shapes for the museum. He topped it off with a transparent tent-like structure, which was"open — like the music," he said.
Ieoh Ming Pei was born April 26, 1917, in Canton, China, the son of a banker. He later said,"I did not know what architecture really was in China. At that time, there was no difference between an architect, a construction man, or an engineer."
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