Readers' articles about I.M. Pei

I.M. Pei: He and his buildings are like bamboo.

I.M. Pei, who is in his eighties, is as exciting and elusive as his architecture.

He is good at expressing abstract power. In the mysterious work of transforming talent into architectural quality, exquisiteness, lyricism and beauty make his architecture full of human light.

Parisians scolded me for two years.

He created more than 70 architectural works in his life, and he was most proud of being invited to Paris, France to participate in the reconstruction project of the Louvre at the age of 64. Some people questioned: Is I.M. Pei OK? Can you undertake this heavy responsibility? At that time, I.M. Pei was facing a Frenchman with a strong sense of superiority. After all, the Louvre is a place that people all over the world yearn for.

When French President Mitterrand chose I.M. Pei, the whole Paris was taken aback! Son Bei Zhizhong recalled, "At that time, the French were really dumbfounded. Even become angry from embarrassment ",shouting: How to call a China person to repair our most important building? I.M. Pei will destroy Paris! They express their dissatisfaction day and night. Accusing this building of being beyond the spiritual space of the French, it is a huge destructive device. French politicians and architects also took turns to attack. I.M. Pei said, "My translator is trembling all over, and I can hardly translate what I want to answer for me."

Public opinion is always criticized. I.M. Pei has worked in the Louvre in Paris for 14 years. It took nearly two years to discuss with the people of Paris and France who will rebuild this problem.

"Ordinary people don't accept it. It doesn't matter to me. Criticism takes history, time and decades to see. It is good to say today that it will be done tomorrow. I don't think it is valuable. "

In this way, Bei Xingming endured the most severe test in his architectural career with a seemingly indifferent attitude. Pei's assistant said, "I never remember Pei suffering from depression. He is a very calm person, every time I see him. You have to keep that unique and charming smile. " I.M. Pei, like many great people, is always calm and not influenced by strong external pressure.

From 65438 to 0988, the "catastrophe" brought by the pyramids became the greatest happiness for I.M. Pei and his supporters. I.M. Pei was accepted by the French, who like to quarrel and agree. In March of that year, Mitterrand awarded I.M. Pei the highest medal of honor in France at the newly-built pyramid. What embarrassed the French was the pyramids that were strongly opposed. It has become the pride of each of them, because I.M. Pei keeps the distance between the past and the present zeitgeist. Minimize it.

It is better to learn from his architecture than to drink like him.

I.M. Pei spent most of his career in new york. He is good at dancing with long sleeves and is exquisite in all directions. He has close friendship with big bosses, artists and heads of state, but his inner world is beyond the understanding of the west.

I'm Pei, 19 17, from Suzhou. My mother is a flute master and a devout Buddhist. She named him Yu Ming, which means smart. I.m. Pei is a snake. It is said that people born in year of the snake are charming, intuitive, decisive, vain and stubborn.

I.M. Pei's grandfather was a calligrapher, and his father, Bei Zuyi, joined the accounting department of China Bank after graduating from an American university. I.M. Pei1927 was sent to Shanghai Youth Annual Meeting Middle School, and she mastered fluent English.

Daguangming Cinema is the main place for I.M. Pei to kill time in middle school. He watches the best Hollywood movies and sings English songs. American culture was no stranger to Shanghai teenagers at that time.

My father suggested that I.M. Pei pursue finance or study medicine. But his father's experience made him understand very early that bankers have been under pressure and unhappy.

The International Hotel was then the tallest building in the Far East. I heard there will be a 26-story building. I can't believe it. I have to watch it go up every Saturday. It's amazing!

1935. I.M. Pei went to the University of Pennsylvania to study architecture. But the old-fashioned teaching concept made him leave before school started. Not confident about the painting foundation, I came to Boston and applied for the architectural engineering major of MIT. Based on his painting foundation, the dean suggested that he reconsider, but I.M. Pei insisted on his choice and never looked back.

At that time, a new architectural style was emerging in Europe. I.M. Pei is facing the trend of internationalization, and it is difficult to fully accept it. Because he comes from a completely different world. In the process of I.M. Pei's study. Professor muriel of Harvard University had a profound influence on him. Muriel proposed that light is the most important thing in architecture. He is an admirer of the sun and thinks that sunlight brings life to buildings. Mreel was born to drink, drink after drink and eat nothing. I said, I don't drink like him. I learn from his architecture.

It has something to do with feng shui.

More than 70 works of I.M. Pei's life are all intertwined with money, power and politics. He combined his diplomatic skills and unique design with the Bank of China, the National Gallery and the Louvre.

Although Parisians opposed the renovation of the Louvre and the windows of the Boston Insurance Company building fell off the street one after another, I.M. Pei was not affected at all and became one of the most important architects in the world.

Hong Kong, Bank of China Building. 1926, I.M. Pei's father used to be the manager here. The Bank of China Tower used to be the tallest building in Asia, and the reason why he accepted this mission may be more emotional. I.M. Pei tried to make the design of China Bank Building almost pure, just like in his childhood. Because architecture endows people with dignity, it must represent "the aspiration of China people".

"When I was a child, I stayed in Hong Kong, which was so different from today. In fact, what I miss most is the aroma of coffee beans at that time. " Unfortunately. When I.M. Pei's father died, he didn't even see the model photo of China Bank Building designed by his son.

After the building was completed, many people in Hong Kong said that BOC was a knife, and the topic of geomantic omen began. I.M. Pei admitted to absorbing some of Mr. Feng Shui's sayings: use water. There is water on both sides of the tall building. Water is the source. This is the source of money. So the water became a pool below, and fish were raised in the pool. China people think they have saved money.

I.M. Pei said that Feng Shui is very reasonable, but it can't be too. However, you can't believe in Feng Shui. China used to say, build a house by the mountains and the sea. This statement is true, and so is facing south, so many places are related to Feng Shui.

Work for a real estate agent

In the 1940s. I.M. Pei's father asked his son to return to China to build and share the future of China. However, with the invasion of Japan, the people of China are fighting against Japan, and I.M. Pei has lost contact with her family. We'll talk about it later. I.M. Pei decided to become an American citizen. This is a difficult decision for him. It is also a painful choice. "I became an American citizen and had an American family. My children are all Americans, and they are all from China. "

After the war, new york was in an uproar, so I.M. Pei couldn't sit on the Harvard podium. He is committed to rapid economic development. But I never dreamed that my first job was working for a real estate agent. This developer is extremely conceited. If you want to satisfy his conceit, you must do something very special.

I.M. Pei and he are very different people, but they both have the same dream. At that time, the most creative buildings in the city were all cheap houses. 195 1 In the slums of Washington, some people lived in dilapidated houses, and the dust was flying and water pipes were laid in the open air ... I.M. Pei became interested in houses.

During the building period, I.M. Pei accumulated engineering experience. Soon the lucky I.M. Pei received a list-National Atmospheric Research Center, which was a new starting point for I.M. Pei's career. It has also become the first time in Pei's life to establish a long-term and friendly personal relationship with customers.

American public figures

I.M. Pei really became a public figure at a turning point in American history. 1963, president Kennedy was assassinated, and the construction of Kennedy library became the top priority of the presidential family. They invited world-famous architects. This is an unprecedented party, and everyone wants this opportunity. I.M. Pei was not famous at that time, and only made some residential buildings. Also invited.

The location of the library was chosen in Harvard, and it took 10 years to complete the project. Kennedy's wife Jacqueline said that I.M. Pei's beautiful world is unparalleled.

Just as I.M. Pei was in the spring breeze and people began to pay attention to his works, the windows of the Boston Insurance Company building were blown down by the wind, and the glass was scattered all over the street, and one third of the windows fell off!

Criticism and censure poured in, and I.M. Pei was almost pushed to the edge of the cliff. Although he tried to prove his innocence, seven years later, the door and window company closed the matter, but the damage to Pei Ming and his family has been caused. I.m. Pei said, "After the accident. Those companies are ashamed to see us. "

Just like I.M. Pei was accused. The National Gallery of Art in Washington ushered in its opening day ... I.M. Pei's life in the United States has been ups and downs. He likes being with young people. With young people, he seems to have become much younger himself, every time on such occasions. He always wears a suit sewn by China, which is obviously artistic. His witty eyes filled his gentle appearance with lively emotions.

I.m. Pei loved music all his life. He compared his architecture to Bach's music. Dallas, USA has a first-class symphony. But there is no real concert hall. I.M. Pei tried to build a concert hall, and they hit it off. I.M. Pei uses a circular structure to create space once you start walking. The whole space began to move, making people forget the trivial things of the day and enter another time and space. I.m. Pei used this design to relax people's spirits. Here he used the method of "changing scenery" in China gardens.

When I first returned to China, I.M. Pei designed the Xiangshan Hotel. He wants to repay his culture through architecture and help the architectural community in China explore a new way. He wants to revitalize the characteristics that ordinary people can understand-not pedantic palaces, but ordinary people's white walls and gray bricks. He believes that this is by no means a relic of the past, but a reminder of the power of the present.

In the United States, immigrants are generally lost in different cultures, and finally can't find a real home, except China people. As an elegant ferryman in the cultural gap, I.M. Pei has both fish and bear's paw. He absorbed the most avant-garde things in the west. At the same time, we will not give up our rich traditions.

His buildings are like bamboo, such as the Bank of China, and he himself is like bamboo, no matter how stormy it is. Just bending over.

I.M. Pei takes every waking morning as a gift, because it means that she can work one day. He only does what he thinks is beautiful. In new york, I.M. Pei, a master architect, is often seen rushing across 57th Street like a young man. Hurry home.

Readers, No.65438 +05, 2009, page 44.