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I.M.
Pei and Associates
Leoh Ming Pei was born in Canton, China in 1917. He left China
when he was 18 to study architecture at MIT and Harvard. Between
1942 and 1945, he worked as a concrete designer for Stone and
Webster, and in 1946 he began work in the office of Hugh Asher
Stubbins, in Boston.
Pei worked as an instructor and then as an assistant professor
at Harvard before he joined Webb & Knapp, Inc. in New York
in 1948. Pei worked as the head of the architectural division
of Webb and Knapp, Inc. until 1960, when he resigned and founded
his own architectural office, I. M. Pei & Partners, New York,
which in 1979 became Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners. The design
partners through the years have been Ieoh Ming Pei, Henry N. Cobb
and James Ingo Freed.
Due to his reliance on abstract form and materials such as stone,
concrete, glass, and steel, Pei has been considered a disciple
of Walter Gropius. However, Pei shows little concern with theory.
He does not believe that architecture must find forms to express
the times or that it should remain isolated from commercial forces.
Pei generally designs sophisticated glass clad buildings loosely
related to the high-tech movement. However, many of his designs
result from original design concepts. He frequently works on a
large scale and is renowned for his sharp, geometric designs.
COBB, HENRY IVES
Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, August 19, 1859, he attended
the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and Harvard University. After a short
service with Peabody & Stearns in Boston, he moved to Chicago
where he engaged in a nationwide practice for many years. He was
one of the designers of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago,
1892, and in the same year was appointed a special government
architect. During the ten year tenure of his office, he designed
the Federal Building at Chicago and the League Island buildings
at Annapolis. Since 1902 he had resided in New York. He was one
of the first to use steel in the construction of tall buildings.
The Chicago Opera House, Chicago Athletic Club, Newberry Library
and the University of Chicago are among the buildings he designed.
In 1962, in response to the Congressional mandate, the Federal
Aviation Administration employed I.M. Pei and Associates to begin
design of a standardized air traffic control tower. In 1966, the
designers adapted the reinforced-concrete tower captured by a
glass and metal cab, where controllers worked, to O’Hare
International Airport. The design program divided the tower into
three component parts, with variations in all three: two types
or sizes of control cab are the top of the tower for visual flight
control; two kinds of pentagonal tower shafts in an array of sizes,
most of which are of reinforced concrete; and an underground base
of varying sizes housing equipment for instrument flight control
and other functions.
I.M Pei and Associates architectural works:
Bank of China, at Hong Kong, 1982 to 1990.
Christian Science Center, at Boston, Massachusetts, 1968 to 1974.
East Wing, National Gallery, at Washington, D.C., 1974 to 1978.
Everson Museum of Art, at Syracuse, New York, 1968.
Hancock Place, at Boston, Massachusetts, 1977.
Javits Convention Center, at New York, New York, 1979 to 1986.
Johnson Museum of Art, at Ithaca, New York, 1973.
National Center for Atmospheric Research, at Boulder, Colorado,
1961 to 1967. * 3D Model *
Pyramide du Louvre, at Paris, France, 1989. * 3D Model *
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, at Cleveland, Ohio, 1998.
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