I.M. Pei, the versatile, globe-trotting architect who revived the Louvre with a giant glass ... But he also was interested in architecture as art — and the effect he could create." ...

So wrote Jean Dutourd, a member of the prestigious Académie française, when he heard the announcement of I.M. Pei’s planned landmark entrance to the Louvre ... art in a museum is its architecture.

“I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art,” Pei said ... The 71-foot-high glass pyramid he built as the Louvre’s new entrance relied for its extraordinary visual lightness on ...

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Pei sparked controversy for his pyramid at the Louvre Museum ... "I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity," he once said.

I.M. Pei, the versatile, globe-trotting architect who revived the Louvre with a giant glass pyramid and captured the spirit of rebellion at the multi-shaped Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has died at ...