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Author - I. M. Pei
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Lasting
A lasting architecture has to have roots.
Technology
The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural....
Good
It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think....
Never
I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese....
Life
I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen....
Violence
Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
Modern
Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.
Mother
I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.
Life
To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating....
Me
The Louvre for me is a wonderful experience. Because it continues; it didn't get cut off. It was actually....
Light
In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving....
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