I.M. Pei (1917-2019)

[djproject]

I.M. Pei, architect.

His firm was responsible for 200 Clarendon Street in Boston (known colloquially as “the Hancock”). This provided the main artwork for my own album (as キラヨシ), Reincarnated Resurrection.

[domino harvey]

He also ruined downtown OKC

[Michael Kerpan]

He also ruined downtown OKC

Too be fair, as far as I can tell, Pei delivered precisely the sort of plan the "city fathers" wanted.

[domino harvey]

I stumbled onto this promotional short film from the early 70s last year, and as an Oklahoman it’s fascinating, especially since much of what was promised in the program never came and they celebrate destroying historic buildings to make way for sterile shapes

[bearcuborg]

That was very much thing to do in the 70s, a lot of cities couldn’t wait to tear down historic buildings.

I’m a fan of the trapezoid look to some of his buildings. The East Building in DC is magnificent too. The bottom floor (with a really hip book store for film buffs) is something most folks over look when visiting, but it has a really beautiful water fall/moving walk way.

[colinr0380]

I.M. Pei, architect.

His firm was responsible for 200 Clarendon Street in Boston (known colloquially as “the Hancock”). This provided the main artwork for my own album (as キラヨシ), Reincarnated Resurrection.

It is embarassing to admit but I think I am most familiar with I.M. Pei from that Simpsons pun on his name!

[artfilmfan]

I’m a fan of the trapezoid look to some of his buildings. The East Building in DC is magnificent too. The bottom floor (with a really hip book store for film buffs) is something most folks over look when visiting, but it has a really beautiful water fall/moving walk way.

I spent a lot of time in that bookstore before showtimes during the Ozu and Naruse retrospectives.