The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary. - I. M. Pei 1 Share Now -
Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process. - I. M. Pei 2 Share Now -
I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect. - I. M. Pei 3 Share Now -
In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert. - I. M. Pei 4 Share Now -
I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there. - I. M. Pei 5 Share Now -
I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet. - I. M. Pei 6 Share Now -
It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape. - I. M. Pei 7 Share Now -
The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary. - I. M. Pei 8 Share Now -
The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary. - I. M. Pei 9 Share Now -
