Name: Ieoh Ming Pei

Nationality: American
Birth date: April 26, 1917 (1917-04-26)
(age 92)
Birth place: Guangzhou (Canton), China
Work Practice name: Pei Cobb Freed &
Partners

Significant buildings:
•Louvre Pyramid
•Bank of China Tower
•Javits Convention Center
•East Building, National Gallery of Art
•Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

Awards and prizes:

•AIA Gold Medal
•Presidential Medal of Freedom Presented by: AMIT KUMAR
• Pritzker Prize AMIT DUBEY
DEEPTI CHAUHAN
RAJNI BHASIN
Philosophy

•Although he is remembered for his buildings, I. M. Pei's greatest

influence on the architectural world is his philosophy of design.
Just as his designs integrate aesthetics with functionality, Pei
himself epitomizes the resolution of both an artist and engineer.

•He believed that the only issue of contemporary concern was life
itself; buildings should be created as living spaces -- spaces of
activity and thought – rather than static monuments.

•An unusual dialogue between two very different and very

important cultures: east and west.

•Interplay between geometry and light

•The relationship between site and building design

•Due to his reliance on abstract form and materials such as stone,

concrete, glass, and steel, Pei has been considered a disciple of
Walter Gropius.

•To the architectural world, Pei legacy is his belief that

architecture "is the mirror of life itself."
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART-
EAST WING

 Location : Washington d.c.

 Date : 1974-78
 Building type : Art museum, Administrative offices
 Construction system : Post-tensioned concrete,
stone cladding
 Climate : Temperate
 Context : Urban park setting
 Style : Modern
 Notes Dramatic circulation space, triangular planning
grid, semi-underground with pyramidal skylights.
Calder mobile in atrium.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART- EAST WING
PROBLEM
•The new building had to fit an
irregularly shaped, trapezoidal site.
•Harmonize with John Russell Pope's
classicizing West Building.
•Two different buildings were required:
a museum to house large travelling
exhibitions, and also a separate study-
center / office facility .

SOLUTION
•The trapezoidal site was sliced into
two triangles — one for each function
— with a triangular atrium unifying the
whole.
•In plan, section and elevation, the
interlocking volumes merge
inseparably.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART- EAST WING
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART- EAST WING
 "H"-shaped façade matches the equally severe walls of the
West Building.
 To correspond in texture and color to the original building,
the new one is faced inside and out with lavender-pink
marble from the same quarry.
 This structure interlocks complex, shifting triangular
shapes. To emphasize these sharp angles, lighter stone
was chosen for all the East Building's vertical corners.
 The new and old buildings are functionally united into an
integrated whole by an underground tunnel animated by
prismatic skylights, and a waterwall.

 The sky lit atrium at the heart of the East Wing is a hub of
circulation and orientation.

 Organized around it are three flexible towers designed to

permit the exhibition of one large or multiple small shows.

 Adjacent to the public museum is the integral, Study

Center, which, housed in a smaller triangle, provides a
light-filled reading room and library stacks, as well as
offices for scholars, curators and administrators.
PYRAMIDE DU LOUVRE
 Location : Paris ,France
 Date : 1989
 Building type : Art museum
entrance
 Construction system : Glass and
steel rods and cable
 Climate : Temperate
 Context : Urban
 Style : Modern
 Notes: A new visitor entrance to
the Louvre Museum complex,
connecting elegantly to expanded
galleries below the courtyards.
•A grand entrance to the museum with a
larger-than-life 70-foot glass pyramid
surrounded by a triad of smaller pyramids
and reflecting pools.

•This new entrance, which connected a

large underground reception area to the
existing art galleries, was lauded
internationally.

•The concept behind the Pei Pyramids was,

to create a modern space without taking
away from the elegance of the existing
structure.

• The triangular geometry of the pyramid

encompasses a small, unobtrusive volume,
yet creates a distinct space that captures
light and has surface identification.

• Similarly, by using the Egyptian concept of

the pyramids, the new structure would be
both more ancient and more modern than
the existing Louvre.
 HANCOCK TOWER

 Location : Boston
 Date : 1977
 Building type : Skyscraper, commercial office
tower
 Construction system :Steel frame and glass
curtain wall
 Climate : Temperate
 Context : Urban
 Style : Corporate modern
 Notes : . Reflective obelisk skyscraper. Famous
glazing problems.
 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

 Location :Cleveland, Ohio

 Date : Opened April 2, 1998
 Building type : Museum, hall of
fame
 Climate : Temperate
 Style : Electic Modern
 Notes : Signature Pei glazed
pyramidoids combined with various
solids.

The museum contains rock-and-roll memorabilia, images and signatures of Hall of Fame
members, and multimedia exhibits tracing the history of rock music .
This building was designed to express the dynamic music it celebrates, and emblematize the
city that introduced the term "rock and roll" in the mid-1950s.
 Simple geometric forms are juxtaposed to combine diverse functions within a unified whole.
A theater cantilevered over Lake Erie on one side balances a circular performance drum on
the other while a 165-foot-high orthogonal tower rises from the water to engage a
tetrahedral glass tent.
Like an explosive musical chord, the sculptural components reverberate out from center. At
night the building comes alive with sequenced lights.
 The design creates for the museum a civic identity that reaches out to the public and
anchors Cleveland's developing waterfront as a nationally significant center of entertainment,
education and culture
 BANK OF CHINA
 Location : Hong Kong
 Date : 1982 to 1990
 Building type : Skyscraper , commercial office tower
 Construction system : Steel frame, glass curtain wall
 Climate : tropical
 Context : urban
 Style : Modern
 Notes : Graceful, concise and structurally expressive,
triangular stepped-back plan.

An asymmetrical tower that addresses both skyline and street.

 Comprised of four vertical shafts, the incremental tower emerges from a 52-meter cube and
diminishes its mass, quadrant by quadrant, until a single triangular prism remains.
The faceted prism is clad in reflective glass that mirrors the changing sky, anchoring the
expanding business district and providing a distinctive vertical axis to Hong Kong's towering
skyline.
 The whole is supported by an innovative composite structural system that not only resists
high-velocity winds, but does so with significant savings of construction time and materials.
Triangular bracing and step-backs are structural adaptations to the high wind loads caused by
Hong Kong typhoons.
 At ground level, the tower is pulled back from the street to create a welcoming pedestrian
environment that is fully accessible yet secluded from urban congestion.
It is surrounded by a broad promenade, and flanked by cooling water gardens that muffle the
activity and noise of surrounding traffic.
 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CENTER
 Location : Boston, Massachusetts
 Date : 1968 to 1974
 Building type : corporate
headquarters (religious)
 Construction system : reinforced
concrete
 Climate : temperate
 Context : urban campus
 Style : Modern
 Notes : I. M. Pei and Partners.
repetition in facade, new/old
juxtaposition, reflecting pool.
This sprawling urban complex is part of a three-phase master plan.
 It is a work of repose that attempts to resolve structure, form and space through the
unifying element of architecture. cast in precision-formed architectural concrete. By this
strategy all visible elements, such as walls, columns and beams are structurally and
mechanically integrated within an inseparable, but flexible, whole.
 A 670-foot-long reflecting pool along the eastern axis of the site helps to visually bind the
different components together while providing a friendly realm for interaction with the
surrounding city.
 The pool, located on the roof of a 600-car underground garage, also functions as the
cooling tower for the complex.
 NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH
Location : Boulder, Colorado

Date : 1961 to 1967

Building type : research center

Construction system : concrete

Climate : cold temperate

Context : rural mountains

Style : Modern

Notes : Abstracted, blocky, forms evocative

 of the rugged Southwestern U.S. landscape.

 Pei has returned to the elemental forms of sheer walls of unfinished concrete of a dark
reddish-brown aggregate to match the color of the mountains. The crisp and angular masses
of bold pinkish-brown concrete forms, resembling in color the backdrop of rocks, grow out
of the mesa and its defining slopes. The forms are cut apart by vertical strips of gray tinted
glass and sculpturally capped by concrete hoods and louvres, which act as sculptural accents
in the overall upward thrust of the scaleless vertical wall planes....".thus building in the more
classically 'contained' sense, impinging minimally on the vegetation and topography of their
mesa site at the edge of the Rockies,
OTHER
PROJECTS
 RAFFELS CITY

FOUR
SEASONS
 EVERSON MUSEUM
OF ART

MEYERSON
SYMPHONY
CENTER,
DALLAS,
TEXAS
 DALLAS
CITY HALL

IBM OFFICE
 KIPS BAY

JOHNSON
MUSEUM OF
ART