According to local media reports in the United States, the world-famous Chinese architect, Pei Ming, died on May 16 at the age of 102. Pei’s most famous works include the glass pyramid of the Louvre in France.
Pei Ming was born in Suzhou, China in 1917. At the age of 17, she went to the University of Pennsylvania to study architecture. She then transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study architecture. At the age of 27, she studied at the Harvard University Institute of Architecture.
In the summer of 1935, the young boy graduated from high school, and his father hoped that he would go to the UK to study economics. However, a movie called “College Humor” made him violate his father’s wishes. The American university campus architecture and campus style described in the film made him have a strong interest in architectural design. In the end, he chose the architectural design major at the University of Pennsylvania, and later transferred to the higher MIT architecture department.
In 2017, Mr. Pei Ming has been 100 years old. His life has more than 70 works, public buildings, cultural and educational buildings account for the vast majority. These works are inextricably linked with money, rights and politics. Pei Ming is like an elegant ferryman who combines intricate interests and cultural differences between the East and the West to be as complete as Tai Chi.
He is also like a bamboo, with toughness and windy bones. He knows how to bend over in the face of difficulties and can stand on the bottom line and achieve his goal. This is the wisdom that the family taught him, and the wisdom that China taught him. His work has more than 70 pieces, including the Kennedy Library, the East Pavilion of the National Art Museum of Washington, and the Bank of China Building in Hong Kong.
In 1964, in honor of the US President John F. Kennedy who had been stabbed in the previous year, the Kennedy family decided to build a permanent building in the Boston Harbor, the John F. Kennedy Library, and Pei Ming, who had just stood on its own, was also invited. The ranks of architects.
When Kennedy’s widow, Jacqueline, walked into Pei’s office, she saw her favorite flowers and plants, and she wore a high-end suit and hair, and she was as meticulous as a banker. In contrast, IM Pei’s competitor Mies is arrogant, Louis Kang is not trimming, the office is also a mess.
The library, which was built in 1979 and built in 1979, is a sensation in the American architectural world with its novel design, bold shape and high technology. And was praised as “one of the greatest masterpieces in American architectural history.” The American architectural community also announced that 1979 was the “Bei Mingming Year” and awarded him the American Academy of Architecture Gold Medal.
However, Pei’s most well-known masterpiece should be the renovation of the Louvre in Paris. French President Mitterrand personally made a decision, not bidding, and named Pei Ming to reshape this heart of France. He once said: “Architects must have their own style and opinions, and they must be drowned by history.” Believe that the truth is in the hands of a few people, once again played an excellent public relations ability. With the help of the French government, he rushed around the people of all walks of life to lobby for Mrs. Pompidou and Paris Mayor Chirac. stand by.
In order to explain the rationality of the design more intuitively, Pei Ming even built a 1:1 model to show the public. In the end, a total of 60,000 Parisians visited this physical model and conducted a referendum like the presidential election. As a result, the model conquered Chirac and conquered the French.
After a lot of hard work, the project was finally implemented. The triangular structure of the pyramid is sturdy and stable, and can be fixed with only a steel cable, which creates a large and prominent main entrance. Using glass as the main material will not only destroy the appearance of the existing Louvre complex, but also bring the sun into the ground. At night, under the illumination of the lights, it will be as dazzling as a diamond.
Today, the Pyramid has long been the iconic building of the Louvre, and it is still the best proof of Pei Ming’s unique vision beyond the times.
During the repair of the Louvre, in 1983, Pei Ming also won the Pritzker Prize. As an American Chinese, he worked hard for a long time in the controversy and discrimination that has been disturbed, and finally ushered in the trophy that represents the highest achievement in world architectural design.
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