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...cause of all this furor is a plan by U.S. Architect I.M. Pei to build a 66-ft-high glass pyramid smack in the center of one of the sacred precincts of French culture: the courtyard of the venerable Louvre Museum. The structure, which will be lighted at night, will be surrounded by three smaller pyramids connected by triangular pools and fountains. The whole design in itself resembles a huge frozen fountain. It will be the centerpiece of a comprehensive expansion and reorganization of the Louvre ordered by French President François Mitterrand. No price tag has been...
...When President Mitterrand approached me," recalls Pei, "I was not so sure that anything much could or should be done about the Louvre. I certainly did not want to take part in a competition. I asked for three months to think about the problem-not to draw or design anything; to think." Some architects work from bursts of inspiration sketched on the proverbial back of an envelope. Pei arrives at his designs through the meticulous exercise of logical deduction. He concluded that a thorough revamping of the museum was possible without changing any of the existing architecture...
...Lowry M. Pei '67, a preceptor in Expository Writing who taught Hasselmo as a freshman, called him "the most interesting guy that I've taught in a long time...
...Expos assignment, Pei said, Hasselmo took an "impossible" short story and wrote two essays about it, incorporating a different style in each paper...
...town seems able, or willing, to stop one-upping the other. Houston has a 44-acre Galleria complex of stores and offices, but Dallas will shortly have its own Galleria, one acre smaller and built by the same developer. Dallas has a gorgeous new city hall designed by I.M. Pei; Houston has the nearly complete 75-story Texas Commerce Tower, also designed by Pei, which will be the Southwest's tallest building. Houston has one-third more office space under construction than Dallas, but Dallas has the gargantuan eight-year-old Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport. Not to be outdone...