I.M. Pei poses with a model of his design for Dallas City Hall on March 4, 1970.(LEE LANGUM/Staff Photographer / Dallas Morning News) That aim was explicitly codified in Jonsson’s Goals for ...

I.M. Pei, the famed modernist architect ... and promise of a blank slate, a new start. Pei’s contribution to Goals for Dallas is perhaps this city’s most misunderstood building, Dallas City ...

(Dennis Jansen / The Dallas Morning News) Dallas City Hall was built in 1978 and designed by architect I.M. Pei. The 7-story building follows the "brutalist" style pioneered by Le Corbusier.

City Hall, Energy Plaza, Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and One Dallas Center, and the original control tower at Bush Intercontinental Airport. In 1983, Pei won the Pritzker Prize.

This madness is explained in the June edition of D Magazine: Since I.M. Pei’s upside-down cake of a modernist building first opened in 1978, people have complained about Dallas City Hall.

The event was seen as an opportunity to bring people to Downtown Dallas, and to hopefully spark interest in the I.M. Pei-designed City Hall building, which had opened six years earlier.

IM Pei completed the Dallas City Hall in 1978. Photograph by Flickr user Bryan In 2010, architect David Adjaye listed Pei as one of his role models. "When I began my studies in architecture ...

I.M. Pei, the Chinese-born ... Preparing to design a new Dallas City Hall, he attended city council meetings. For the Louvre, he read volumes of French history and spent months prowling the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. paid tribute last week to its architect, the late I.M. Pei ... the Rock Hall among Pei’s greatest ...

I.M. Pei, an American modernist architect regarded as one of the world’s leading designers of civic centers and cultural institutions, including the National Gallery of Art’s East Building ...

These now-iconic structures include the Rock and Roll Hall ... I.M. Pei & Associates, which he set up in 1955. Completed in 1966, the building is situated high on a mesa overlooking the city ...