It was established by the tiny, oil-rich nation to compete with rival Persian Gulf countries for international attention and investment. This paper intends to take the Chinese-American architect I.M.Peis Grand Louvre project (1983-1989, 1988-1993) as a case study to investigate the consistency. The museum in Qatar that opened in 2008 was inspired by Islamic architectural history, especially the 9th century mosque of Ahmed ibn Tulun in the Egyptian capital of Cairo. Pei and Partners, was renamed Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. Two of his sons, Li Chung Pei and Chien Chung Pei, former members of their father's firm, formed Pei Partnership Architects in 1992. According to the Architects Magazine, when President Francois Mitterrand selected Pei for the Grand Louvre Project renounced from an architecture competition. Pei officially retired in 1990 but continued to work on projects. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992. Click through the gallery to see his life and work in pictures. Pei’s 100th birthday, we’re diving into the history of the Louvre: a cultural hub that precedes him by some 700 years, but which owes much of its present vibrancy to. He also won the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1983, and the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal, 1979. Here, he's seen in 1985 with an architectural model of the Louvre Pyramid in Paris. In 1988, President Reagan honored him with a National Medal of Arts. He topped it off with a transparent tent-like structure, which was "open - like the music," he said. For four months, Pei did not tell his team in New York that Franois Mitterrand, the French. Pei, FAIA, received one of the most illustrious commissions of his careerthe modernization of the Louvre he kept the project a secret from his firm. Pei, who admitted he was just catching up with the Beatles, researched the roots of rock 'n' roll and came up with an array of contrasting shapes for the museum. The Louvre Pyramid is a large glass and metal pyramid, surrounded by three smaller pyramids, in the main courtyard (Cour Napoléon) of the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) in Paris.The large pyramid serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum. Irene Ledyaeva Pyramid at the Grand Louvre in Paris, designed by I.M.
No challenge seemed to be too great for Pei, including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which sits on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.