Word: pei
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Designers trained by the GSD include many of the most recognizable names in American architecture: Philip Johnson '27 (BAR '43), Michael Graves (MAR '59), Ulrich Franzen (MAR '48), I. M. Pei (MAR '46). Throughout the years, GSD-trained designers have have staffed most of the top architectural firms in the nation, mostly on the East Coast...
...Photography Board: Lisa W. Clark '89 of Stoughton Hall and Belmont; David K. Eldan '89 of Wigglesworth and Culver City, Calif.; Frederick J. Nager '89 of Holworthy Hall and Tai-Pei, Taiwan; Hector I. Osorio '89 of Weld Hall and Queens, N.Y.; Robert G. Popham '88 of Lowell House and Ellicott City, Md.; Andrea L. Roberts '88 of Winthrop House and Newton; Adam Ruderman '87 of Dudley House and New York, N.Y.; J. Carter Vincent '89 of Wigglesworth Hall and Newton...
...degree in 1940 and soon enrolled in the Harvard School of Design. Meanwhile, back in Canton, his father, a member of a wealthy banking family, suggested he not return "until things settle down." They never did, since the war was followed by the Communist takeover. Although Pei's success in the U.S. was growing, he "had trouble cutting the ties" to China. In 1954, one year before he started his own firm, he became a citizen, along with his wife. "We had mixed feelings. On the one hand, feelings of sorrow at having to abandon our culture, our roots...
...winners were selected from 630 entries by a jury of experts headed by Architect I.M. Pei, whose much praised designs include the East Building of the National Gallery of Art and the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. The designers present smiled politely during the awards ceremony when President Reagan mispronounced Pei's name, calling him "Pie" instead of "Pay." But they laughed when Reagan said, "Good design can help us save money, and you know how much that warms my heart." The President's interest cannot fail to shake up the bureaucracy a little. And more attention...
...novelty, the Illinois Center is not new in all respects. It draws on ideas that have had currency among architects for more than a decade: the adventurous geometry of "late modernists" such as I.M. Pei and Edward Larrabee Barnes; the office atrium pioneered by Kevin Roche; the glass- , enclosed elevators popularized by John Portman's Hyatt hotel designs; and the spirited use of color epitomized by the Miami firm Arquitectonica. The German-born Jahn, 45, an architect celebrated--some would say notorious--for his arch flourishes with high-tech elements, had applied some of the same ideas...