I.M. Pei went to the United States in 1930s and studied architecture at MIT and Harvard University. The American architectural community declared 1979 as "I.M. Pei Year", and won the Gold Award of American Architectural Society, French Architectural Gold Award 198 1, Imperial Japan Award 1989, the 5th Pritzker Award 1983 and 65438.
I.m. Pei's masterpiece:
1, Xiangshan Hotel
Xiangshan Hotel is a four-star hotel designed by internationally renowned Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei, which integrates China's classical architectural art, garden art and environmental art. The hotel is located in Xiangshan Park, Xishan Scenic Area, Beijing, with natural beauty and different seasons.
2. Suzhou Museum
1999 Suzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government invited the world Chinese architect I.M. Pei to design the new Suzhou Museum. On June 6th, 2006, 10, the new Suzhou Museum was completed and officially opened to the public. The new building covers an area of about10.07 million square meters, and the construction area exceeds10.9 million square meters. It is a comprehensive museum integrating modern architecture, ancient architecture and innovative landscape gardens.
3. Islamic Art Museum
In 2009, I.M. Pei also participated in the design of the Islamic Art Museum. I.M. Pei went to Egypt and other countries in the Middle East to find the best expression of Islamic culture. He found that both Islamic architecture in Damascus, Syria and Islamic architecture in Turkey have traces of other religions, which are no longer pure Islamic expressions.
Extended data
The features of the works designed by I.M. Pei are as follows:
1. Light is the color of the building, and "let light design" is a famous saying of Bayesian. In his works, the combination of light and space makes the space change endlessly. For example, the entrance of the Louvre pyramid in Paris brings a lot of light into the museum of death, so that the past history can be bathed in the sun today.
2. Make good use of the characteristics of glass. Natural light flows into the room through transparent glass materials, bringing warmth and agility to everything in the room. Steel mesh not only plays a supporting and bearing role.
3. Bayesian pays attention to the study of concrete, excavates its mechanical characteristics and visual expressive force, integrates structure and decoration in architectural design, and is faithful to the expressive force of material texture, thus pushing the application of concrete to a new height.
4. I.M. Pei has made immortal contributions to the development of geometric composition of modernist architecture. With his colorful architectural works, Bei shows people that modernism is still alive, it is by no means a mechanism, and it can also present colorful artistic images.
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