...ingapore the est ing of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston the Fragrant Hill Hotel near Beijing, China Creative Artists Agency Headquarters in Beverly Hills, California the Jacob K. Javits Center in Ne York an IBM Office Complex in Somers, NY and another in Purchase, NY the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, Ne York and the Texas Commerce Toer in Houston.He has designed arts facilities and university buildings on the campuses of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Rochester, Cornell University, the Choate School, Syracuse University, Ne York University and the University of Haaii.As a student, he as aarded the MIT Traveling Felloship, and the heelright Traveling Felloship at Harvard. His subsequent honors include the folloing the Brunner Aard,the Medal of Honor of the Ne York Chapter of the AIA, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Medal for Architecture, the Gold Medal for Architecture of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Alpha Rho Chi Gold Medal, la Grande Medaille dOr of lAcademie dArchitecture France, and The Gold Medal of The American Institute of Architects. In 1982, the deans of the architectural schools of the United States chose 1. M. Pei as the best designer of significant non-residential structures.Citation from the Pritzker JuryIeoh Ming Pei has given this century some of its most beautiful interior spaces and exterior forms. Yet the significance of his ork goes far beyond that. His concern has alays been the surroundings in hich his buildings rise.He has refused to limit himself to a narro range of architectural problems. His ork over the past forty years includes not only palaces of industry, government and culture, but also moderate and lo income housing. His versatility and skill in the use of materials approach the level of poetry.His tact and patience have enabled him to dra together peoples of disparate interests and disciplines to create an harmonious environment.Ieoh Ming Peis Acceptance SpeechIt is a geat honor to be here tonight to receive the 1983 International Pritzker Architecture Prize. I take particular pleasure in thanking those ho coneived the prize, those ho have administered it, and the distinguished jurors ho have seen fit to select me as this years recipient.During the preparation of the exhibits here, it as reassuring to observe that quite a number of our projects actually led to finished buildings. Especially vivid in my mind ere the many social, economic, political as ell as esthetic constraints that architects have had to consider in the shaping of their ork. You may be amused to kno, although it as not amusing to me at the time, that a house I designed for a friend in Cambridge in the early forties as denied a mortgage because it looked modern. In this sense I belong to that generation of American architects ho built upon the pioneering perceptions of the modern movement, ith an unavering conviction in its significant achievements in the fields of art, technology and design. I am keenly aare of the many banalities built in its name over the years. Nevertheless, I believe in the continuity of this tradition for it is by no means a relic of the past but a living force that animates and informs the present.Only in this ay can e develop and refine an architectural language, responsive to todays values and allo for a variety of expressions in both style and substance. Ho else can e hope to build a coherent physical environment for our cities, tons and neighborhoodsItalys Siena and Americas Savannah, Georgian London and Neoclassical Paris are but of fe of the more conspicuous examples. I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. Freedom of expression, for me, consists in moving ithin a measured range that I assign to each of my undertakings. Ho instructive it is to remember Leonardo da Vincis counsel that strength is born of constraint and dies in freedom.The chase for the ne, from the singular perspective of style, has too often resulted in only the arbitrariness of him, the disorder of caprice. It is easy to say that the art of architecture is everything, but ho difficult it is to introduce the conscious intervention of an artistic imagination ithout straying from the context of life.It is this fragility, this preciousness, that elevates and distinguishes this art form. It is this enfolding context that challenges us to transform planning and building opportuniites into the exalted realm of architecture. Architects by design investigate the play of volumes in light, explore the mysteries of movement in space, examine the measure that is scale and proportion, and above all, they search for that special quality that is the spirit of the place as no building exists alone.The practice of architecture is a collective enterprise, ith many individuals of various disciplines and talents orking closely together. And from the commissioning to the completion of a project, there are also the many individuals for hom architects ork, hose contribution to quality is frequently as crucial as that of the architect. So I accept this prize for all ho have orked ith me in this unique undertaking. Let us all be attentive to ne ideas, to advancing means, to daning needs, to impetuses of change so that e may achieve, beyond architectural originality, a harmony of spirit in the service of man.HQ56BtsphBph5Btph5BCJtaJphK diaitddiaitdiaita
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