Author: I. M. Pei

Quotes

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

- I. M. Pei

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'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

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.

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

A lasting architecture has to have roots.

A lasting architecture has to have roots.

- I. M. Pei

Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.

Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.

- I. M. Pei

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

- I. M. Pei

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

- I. M. Pei

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