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...such decisions, large and small, will this new institution be judged. The rock museum, which will celebrate its grand opening this weekend, boasts an impressive building by architect I.M. Pei (the entire project cost $92 million), interactive exhibits (touch-screen computers that play requested songs and videos) and an array of music memorabilia, including the poetry Bruce Springsteen wrote in junior college (excerpt: "emerald waves crashed upon the shores...") and a list from the Rolling Stones detailing what they required backstage for their 1972 tour (among the items: vodka, backgammon set and "apple pie--lots"). As of last week, however...
After practicing architecture in New York Cityfrom 1939 to 1942, Pei taught as an assistantprofessor at the Design School from...
...joined the architectural firm of Webb andKnapp in 1948, and has run his own firm, now Pei,Cobb, Freed and Partners, since 1955. He was awheelwright fellow at Harvard...
...Pei's projects include the West Wing of theMuseum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Dallas CityHall, the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce inToronto and Robert E. Kennedy's grave at theArlington National Cemetery. He was responsiblefor the expansion and modernization of the Louvre...
...Pei has been on the National Council for theArts since...