I.M. Pei
Subtitle: Mandarin of Modernism
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Published: November 7, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780517799727
Subjects: Biography: general; Individual architects; Chinese American architects; Individual Architects Of The 20th Century; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Pei, I. M.,; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Non-Classifiable; 1917-; Architects; Biography; Pei, I. M
Description: No architect has cast a more indelible impression upon the social and political landscape of the last fifty years than I. M. Pei. He has employed his extraordinary blend of diplomacy and design on behalf of such clients as the Kennedy family, Paul Mellon, Francois Mitterrand, Michael Ovitz and the Bank of China. Michael Cannell is the first biographer to tell Pei's amazing story.

Cannell skillfully provides an inside view of the politics of our built environment, as well as a rare glimpse into the mind and life of the most enigmatic architect of our time, I. M. Pei.