IM Pei, the Chinese-American architect who died in 2019 at the age of 102, seems a perfect choice for the inaugural architecture exhibition in Hong Kong’s vast M+ museum. His towering Bank of China tower is visible over the water; like Hong Kong itself, his career straddled east and west, finance and art, commerce and culture. From his striking addition to the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC (1978) to his serene Museum of Islamic Art in Doha (2008), not to mention the controversial glass pyramid at the Louvre, you could call him the world’s first starchitect.
美籍華裔建筑師貝聿銘(IM Pei)于2019年去世，享年102歲，他似乎是香港龐大的M+ 博物館舉辦首屆建筑展的最佳人選。從水面上可以看到他設(shè)計(jì)的中國(guó)銀行大廈；就像香港本身一樣，他的職業(yè)生涯橫跨東西方、金融與藝術(shù)、商業(yè)與文化。從他為華盛頓特區(qū)國(guó)家美術(shù)館(National Gallery of Art)設(shè)計(jì)的引人注目的擴(kuò)建(1978年)到他在多哈設(shè)計(jì)的寧?kù)o的伊斯蘭藝術(shù)博物館(2008年)，更不用說(shuō)盧浮宮備受爭(zhēng)議的玻璃金字塔，你可以稱他為世界上第一位建筑界的明星。