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ARCHITECTURE

Pei’s most well-known architectural       When he received the Pritzker            “The important distinction is
feat is likely his crystalline extension  Architecture Prize in 1983, the jury     between a stylistic approach
to the Louvre in Paris. Other highly      citation stated that he “had given this  to the design and an analytical
influential works include the Bank of     century some of its most beautiful       approach giving the process of
China Tower in Hong Kong, the East        interior spaces and exterior forms.”     due consideration to time, place,
Building of the National Gallery of
Art in Washington, D.C. and the JFK                                                and purpose.”  - I.M. Pei
Presidential Library in Boston.

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