I.M. Pei's East Building.(architecture)(Brief Article)

From: School Arts | Date: April 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Architect I.M. Pei designed the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The innovative structure, which houses the museum's modern artworks, opened in 1978. The challenges Pei faced in designing the building and his answers to these challenges are discussed.

Solving Problems of Form and Function

When Andrew Mellon gave the original West Building of the National Gallery of Art to the nation, he had already anticipated the museum's eventual expansion. In a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, Mellon specified the "Mall building space on the ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

At the National Gallery, Every Picture Tells a Story
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ; ...Gallery of Art? I'm talking West Building and East Building. Every oil painting, watercolor...information desk in the West Building, picked up a map and headed...Impressionists and the East Building. It was while I was looking...French paintings in the East ...
The Young At Art
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ; ...National Gallery's East Building. The weaving, titled...and I were in the East Building of the National...galleries in the West Building to view portrait...has been in the East Building at various times...full hour on the East Building tour. "It's ...
Branching Out in the Art World
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ; ...each entrance to the West Building, in the ficus trees...balcony ledge in the East Building. Paul Mellon, the...the staff when the West Building opened in 1941. The...Toulouse-Lautrec exhibit in the East Building. Arranged near one...A spot outside the West ...
Sculpture's Place In the Sun; National Gallery Renovations Put Once-Slighted Works In Best Possible Light
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ; ...transformation of the West Building during the 24...of I.M. Pei's East Building in 1978. Up until...clarity of the West Building's main floor...Pei's triangular East Building, which somehow...himself altered the West Building's eastern end...NW. After the ...
Away we go: Start spring at National Gallery of Art
Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis) ; ...be mounted in the West Building, Central Gallery...be mounted in the West Building, Main Floor Galleries...regular basis in the West Building lecture hall. The...and May 4-6 in the East Building auditorium. This...scholars in the East Building auditoriums: ...
Away We Go: Cool art at National Gallery
Newspaper article from: Capital (Annapolis) ; ...entrance for West Building located at Sixth...Constitution Avenue; East Building at Fourth Street...available at the East Building entrance; ramps...Jan. 2 in the West Building, ground floor...Jan. 30 in the West Building, main floor...Jan. 30 in the ...
Phillips to Close Briefly
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ; ...take place in the East Building Large Auditorium...Self-Portrait.' " West Building. Tuesday and Feb...Remy and Auvers." East Building Small Auditorium...Painting Techniques." West Building. -- Michael O'Sullivan
Away we go: National Gallery sparkles during holidays
Newspaper article from: Maryland Gazette ; ...are treated to, with the West Building's grand rotunda and garden...exhibition will be held at the East Building Art Information Desk...mezzanine level of the East Building through Dec. 31. The Streets...the ground floor of the West Building through Jan. 15. ...
Crafted abstraction; Martin Puryear's hybrid sculptures surveyed at National Gallery.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times ; ...crooked ladder is hanging by wires to one side of the West Building's rotunda. That is, if they notice it. This tapering...Martin Puryear retrospective on view in the museum's West and East buildings. Otherwise, this marvelous, 31-year survey...Puryear to position six of his sculptures in the ...
National Gallery breaks ground for sculpture garden: $12 million comes from Cafritz Foundation.(Metropolitan Times)(Arts & Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times ; ...The first was for the West Building in 1941. The groundbreaking for the East Building was the second, in...garden, adjacent to the West Building, will be bounded by...standing outside near the East Building, and from loans and...

Find more facts and information related to the article "I.M. Pei's East Building.(architecture)(Brief ..."