Zitate und Sprüche von I. M. Pei

Zeitgenössische Architekten tendieren dazu, alles in einen modernen Rahmen zu zwängen. Die Geschichte kommt dabei oft zu kurz.

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

Eine Stadt ist nicht nur eine Ansammlung von Gebäuden, sondern eine Abfolge von Raum, umgeben und definiert von Gebäuden.

A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.

Architektur darf weder den Raum noch die Umgebung bedrängen.

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.