Architect Ieoh Ming (I. M.) Pei 1917-2019

[bigwheelzip]

He worked to enrich our experience of the world we pass through. Thank you for your work sir.

At the Pei designed addition to Paris's Louvre museum:

 

[shouldazagged]

Is that you in the picture?

 

[bigwheelzip]

Is that you in the picture?

Yup, bout 20 years ago. I happened to be living there when Pei was awarded the commission, and the design was very controversial. This was my first visit there after its completion, and the result was beyond my expectations. It's infrastructure made this huge museum so much more user friendly than it used to be.

 

[walkinghorse]

He certainly left his mark around the world!

 

[Erich]

We were just there (the Louvre) a couple months ago. Pei designed the art museum at my undergrad school (Indiana), and it was a great building. What a neat collection of work that man accomplished - wow. I'd not heard he'd died: thanks for the info.

 

[Golddollar]

That looks like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.

 

[oneounceload]

IM Pei was the Mies Van Der Rohe or Frank Lloyd Wright of his time; a great talent whose skills and artistic eye will be sorely missed.

 

[Big Cholla]

The awareness of the impact that I.M. Pei has had on architectural design will only be increased as more people become acquainted with his designs, his structures and his 'thinking out of the box'. In my humble opinion, Mr. Pei is Frank Lloyd Wright to the Nth degree. .... We are diminished. .....

 

[amazingflapjack]

Wow Wheel-is that the Arch De triumph in the back ground? Quite a contrast - but it works!

 

[bigwheelzip]

Wow Wheel-is that the Arch De triumph in the back ground? Quite a contrast - but it works!

It is a triumphal arch, but probably not the one your thinking of. The arch you see in front of the Pei structure, anchors one end of an axis with three monumental arches. The one in the picture is the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel. Aligned with that arch, at the far end of the Avenue Champs-Élysées, is the larger arch you're probably thinking of, the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile. Following further those arch's alignment, down the Avenue Charles de Gaulle is the modern La Grande Arche de la Défense.