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." ...

“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 ...

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.

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I.M. Pei, the globe-trotting architect who revived the Louvre ... his New York architecture firm. Pei’s works ranged from the trapezoidal addition to the National Gallery of Art in Washington ...

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

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 ...