I.M. Pei: A Profile In American Architecture.

PEI, I.M.; Carter Wiseman.

Item Number: 964

New York: Abrams, 1990.

First edition of this monograph on the work of the award winning architect. Folio, original black cloth. Fine in a very good dust jacket. Signed by the architect, I.M. Pei on the half-title page. Uncommon signed.

Chinese-American architect Pei I.M. has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Pritzker Prize, and the Praemium Imperiale. His work ranges from the Kennedy Library in Boston to the Louvre's controversial glass pyramid addition, some of the distinguished public buildings of the last half century. This first book-length career survey traces Pei's rise from an MIT engineering student to head of an internationally renowned architectural firm.