Conversations With Im Pei

Author : I. M. Pei
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with I.M. Pei written by I. M. Pei and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume presents this master architect in a profoundly personal manner, touching on the influences he gathered in the gardens and cities of his native China, his studies under the great masters of modernism at America's most prestigious universities, and his ascent to the top of his profession in the United States and internationally. Complete with a colorplate section showing Pei's works, a selection of his drawings, and a catalog of his oeuvre, this volume offers a view of a truly extraordinary man. Conversations with I. M. Pei: Light is the Key is as valuable a resource for the general reader as it is for architects and students."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Gero von Boehm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756793845
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with I M Pei written by Gero von Boehm and published by . This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I.M. Pei is one of the 20th century's most celebrated architects, a designer whose sense of form & light has ensured his buildings an iconic status for their innovation & beauty. Here, Pei explains in his own words how his fascination with the art of architecture culminated in a career & an oeuvre almost unparalleled in modern building. Presents the master architect in a personal manner, touching on the influences he gathered in the gardens & cities of his native China, his studies under the great masters of modernism at America's most prestigious universities, & his ascent to the top of his profession in the U.S. & internationally. Complete with 12 color & 83 B&W plates showing Pei's works, a selection of his drawings, & a catalog of his oeuvre.

Author : Hanno Rauterberg
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783791346847
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking Architecture written by Hanno Rauterberg and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in a revised and updated paperback edition, this revealing volume features interviews with twenty of the world's most influential living architects in which they discuss their accomplishments, challenges, inspirations, and dreams. What makes an architect tick? What is the state of architecture today? How do architects view each other's work? No one can answer these questions better than the practitioners themselves. Here such distinguished figures as Cecil Balmond, Norman Foster, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Philip Johnson, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, I. M. Pei, and others offer a wide-ranging assortment of perspectives on contemporary architecture and the architects' roles in shaping the state of the art today. Each interview focuses on the unique contributions of its subject, and is accompanied by images of their most important works. With a no-holds-barred approach the author obtains interesting details about their ideas on architecture in general, from where they get their inspiration to what formative experiences led them to become architects in the first place. Updated with new images, this informative, accessible, and endlessly fascinating collection offers a chance to compare, contrast, and get to know the architects that are shaping the world we live in. ILLUSTRATIONS: 100 colour

Author : Aileen Kwun
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616895748
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty Over Eighty written by Aileen Kwun and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty Over Eighty is a collection of insightful, intimate, and often irreverent interviews with twenty architecture and design luminaries over the age of eighty. Revealing conversations with leaders from a variety of fields—including graphic designers Seymour Chwast, Milton Glaser, Lora Lamm, and Deborah Sussman; architects Michael Graves, Denise Scott Brown, and Stanley Tigerman; urbanist Jane Thompson; industrial designer Charles Harrison; furniture designer Jens Risom; and critic Ralph Caplan—spotlight creators, thinkers, and pioneers whose lifelong dedication to experimentation and innovation continues to shape their disciplines well into their ninth decade. Twenty Over Eighty is not only a record of the remarkable histories and experiences of design's most influential figures but also a source of knowledge and inspiration for contemporary creatives and generations to come.

Author : Louise Chipley Slavicek
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438144954
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I.M. Pei written by Louise Chipley Slavicek and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the life and work of I. M. Pei, a Chinese American architect who is responsible for such works as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Grand Louvre project in Paris, France.

Author : Brad Meltzer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525556028
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I am I. M. Pei written by Brad Meltzer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world-renowned architect I. M. Pei is the twenty-fourth hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series. (Cover may vary) This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of an icon in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction readers and that always includes the hero's childhood influences. At the back are an excellent timeline and photos. This book features I. M. Pei, the award-winning Chinese American architect whose projects include the John F. Kennedy Library and the pyramid at the Louvre. Included is a pop-up of the Louvre to help young readers see the space and Pei's design in 3D! This friendly, fun biography series inspired the PBS Kids TV show Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum. One great role model at a time, these books encourage kids to dream big. Included in each book are: • A timeline of key events in the hero’s history • Photos that bring the story more fully to life • Comic-book-style illustrations that are irresistibly adorable • Childhood moments that influenced the hero • Facts that make great conversation-starters • A virtue this person embodies: I. M. Pei's ingenuity led him and his designs to brave new heights. You’ll want to collect each book in this dynamic, informative series!

Author : Despina Stratigakos
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400880297
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where Are the Women Architects? written by Despina Stratigakos and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely and important search for architecture's missing women For a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture schools has soared. Yet the number of women working as architects remains stubbornly low, and the higher one looks in the profession, the scarcer women become. Law and medicine, two equally demanding and traditionally male professions, have been much more successful in retaining and integrating women. So why do women still struggle to keep a toehold in architecture? Where Are the Women Architects? tells the story of women's stagnating numbers in a profession that remains a male citadel, and explores how a new generation of activists is fighting back, grabbing headlines, and building coalitions that promise to bring about change. Despina Stratigakos's provocative examination of the past, current, and potential future roles of women in the profession begins with the backstory, revealing how the field has dodged the question of women's absence since the nineteenth century. It then turns to the status of women in architecture today, and the serious, entrenched hurdles they face. But the story isn't without hope, and the book documents the rise of new advocates who are challenging the profession's boys' club, from its male-dominated elite prizes to the erasure of women architects from Wikipedia. These advocates include Stratigakos herself and here she also tells the story of her involvement in the controversial creation of Architect Barbie. Accessible, frank, and lively, Where Are the Women Architects? will be a revelation for readers far beyond the world of architecture.

Author : John Peter
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810927469
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oral History of Modern Architecture written by John Peter and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers extensive interviews with more than 60 of the master builders of modern times & comes packaged with a full-length compact disc, which lets us hear renowned architects, in their own voices.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780756735548
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I.m. Pei and Society Hill: a 40th Anniversary Celebration written by and published by DIANE Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Zhaoming Qian
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813940680
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East-West Exchange and Late Modernism written by Zhaoming Qian and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In East-West Exchange and Late Modernism, Zhaoming Qian examines the nature and extent of Asian influence on some of the literary masterpieces of Western late modernism. Focusing on the poets William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Ezra Pound, Qian relates captivating stories about their interactions with Chinese artists and scholars and shows how these cross-cultural encounters helped ignite a return to their early experimental modes. Qian’s sinuous readings of the three modernists’ last books of verse—Williams’s Pictures from Brueghel (1962), Moore’s Tell Me, Tell Me (1966), and Pound’s Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII (1969)—expand our understanding of late modernism by bringing into focus its heightened attention to meaning in space, its obsession with imaginative sensibility, and its increased respect for harmony between humanity and nature.