"I. M. Pei" at the Digital Archive of American Architecture"

“Pei Partnership Architects”

“For me the important distinction is between a stylistic approach to the design; and an analytical approach giving the process of due consideration to time, place, and purpose ... My analytical approach requires a full understanding of the three essential elements ... to arrive at an ideal balance among them.”

“I. M. Pei architecture on Google Maps”

“Pritzker Prize information and acceptance speech”

“I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. Freedom of expression, for me, consists in moving within a measured range that I assign to each of my undertakings. How instructive it is to remember Leonardo da Vinci's counsel that "strength is born of constraint and dies from freedom.”

“Concept sketches for The Musée d'Art Moderne”