Architectural Travel Tour | Dallas City Hall | Ioeh Ming Pei Architect. скачать в хорошем качестве

Architectural Travel Tour | Dallas City Hall | Ioeh Ming Pei Architect.

Architectural travel Tour | Dallas City Hall | Ioeh Ming Pei Architect. I.M. Pei, the famed modernist architect whose shadow and influence looms over Dallas, passed away yesterday at age 102. The Dallas Morning News’ Mark Lamster and KERA’s Jerome Weeks have remembrances of the man best known in Dallas for his hulking, concrete City Hall and his elegant and inspired Meyerson Symphony Center. The juxtaposition in Dallas of those two works of Pei’s oeuvre tell the story of a singular, influential architectural talent, and of the role architectural personalities like Pei’s have played in shaping our city. In Dallas, the story of the 20th century is often condensed down to a singular traumatic event and a city’s reaction to it. In the aftermath of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, in 1963, Dallas was known as the City of Hate, and city leaders sought to brand the place out of this nasty dilemma. J. Erik Jonsson, the founder of Texas Instruments who became the mayor charged with leading this rebrand, turned to the architect I.M. Pei for help and inspiration. Chinese-born Pei, like many architects of his generation, was a product of the Harvard School of Design and an ardent admirer of Swiss-French architectural visionary Le Corbusier, though he had also cut his teeth as a young architect working for New York mega-developer William Zeckendorf. As Morton Meyerson recalls in Lamster’s piece, Pei wasn’t just an architectural talent—one of a handful of architectures whose practice helped create the idea of the “starchitect.” Pei was also a salesman. Visit us at: a2viz.com.vn/ or a2viz.com/