Day at night: I.M. Pei | ACMI collection | ACMI: Your museum of screen culture

Interview with leading U.S. architect and designer, I.M. Pei. Covers his views on the Beaux Arts system under which he trained, his reasons for feeling that an elitist and exclusive view of architecture is no longer valid. He stresses the importance of urban housing in turning cities from places of commerce to areas offering their inhabitants a genuine richness of life

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Credits

Duration

00:30:00:00

Production places

Unknown

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

012510

Language

English

Subject categories

Crafts & Visual Arts → Architects

Short films

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

U-Matic; Access Print (Section 1)

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