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I’ve never left China. My family’s been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I’m a western architect.

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I. M. Pei

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We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.

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A lot of what the ‘Culture’ is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

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May 1, 2024

A lot of what the ‘Culture’ is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

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May 1, 2024

We had a lot of difficulty in getting the French to accept the pyramid. They thought we were trying to import a piece of Egypt until I pointed out that their obelisk was also from Egypt and the Place des Pyramides is around the corner. Then they accepted it. The pyramid at the Louvre, though, is just the tip.

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