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I.M. Pei: Complete Works

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When I think of I.M. Pei, elegant persision come to mind, his is an artistic engineer's approach to architecture. While, I must confess, I prefer Richard Meier, Renzo Piano, and Calatrava to Pei, he still stands out as one of the great architects of the last 25 years. This book is fantastic tribute to this soft spoken, elegant man. The text is scholarly, but not dry and the images really capture the thrill of Pei's artistic engineering. Pei's best work, the Grand Lourve and the National Gallery are given their pride of place in this book, as are some of his lesser known works, this book truly is comprehensive, although being from Houston, I would have like to have seen the Chase Tower profiled, it really exemplifies, I believe better than any building he designed, the good and the not so good in his work, it is at once a soaring sculpture, but at second glance sort of benal and lacking in warmth or cashe, when you compare his building to the unabashed panshe of Phillip Johnson's Republic Bank across the street, you are left with the enigma that is Pei's work and some of the best work Pei get credit for, such as the Hancock Tower in Boston and Fountain Place in Dallas are acually the great Henry Cobb's work..now id love to see a book on him. All, and all, an excellent omage to Pei.

Fantastic book, beautiful photographs, too. We are really enjoying the description of the different works of architecture, comments and all the background information about each of his works. I would definitely recommend this book to a Pei admirer or to anyone wanting to see his beautiful work. Very thorough, too. It is a large book,not sure everyone wants it on their coffee table, but we have it on ours.

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