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Walton drew up a list of the seven people most often mentioned by the 19 architects. The other four were Paul Rudolph, chairman of Yale's Architecture Department, Estonian-born Louis Kahn, Philip Johnson of Connecticut and Ieoh Ming Pei...
Because the Library will contain a memorial to the President, and because it will contain the Institute as well, it will probably be somewhat larger than Kennedy envisioned. The Kennedy family and Ieoh Ming Pei, the architect who will design the library, are known to prefer the MBTA Yard site, which is three times as large as the Business School location...
...Deals & Good Design. Building has fascinated Pei (pronounced pay) from childhood. A Chinese banker's son, he came to the U.S. for his education, won top grades at M.I.T., and was invited by Walter Gropius to teach architecture at Harvard. After World War II, when Communism cut short his childhood dream of rebuilding his homeland, Pei turned to his adopted land's growing problem-the rejuvenation of the city...
...Pei had observed that scheme after scheme to beautify America's topsy-built cities failed because the true client was the real estate entrepreneur rather than the aesthetician. Pei signed on with Manhattan Realtor William Zeckendorf to see if a creative balance could be struck between big deals and good design. The working relationship produced Manhattan's Kips Bay Plaza apartments, Montreal's Place Ville Marie and Denver's Mile High Center. But a decade ago, Pei decided it was time to begin striking out on his own: he became a U.S. citizen...
...Handstands. It is ironic that the commission for a monument should go to an architect who believes that his colleagues are too often overwhelmed with their own edifice complex. Pei holds that doing a handstand in marble on a street-corner site while ignoring the neighbors is an irresponsible posture for an architect. "What's there must influence what comes later," he says. "But architecture must not do violence to space or to its neighbors." Architects must, he believes, "realize that open space is just as important as the shaft, the pile, the solid masses...