Media Studies on I.M.Pei at M+, Hong Kong
​Published on Artforum October 2024
"As M+ implicitly reveals, the smooth ascent of Pei’s architectural career depended on a tireless choreography of diplomacy. The show calls our attention to a new condition in which the manifesto architecture of the academy has been replaced by a publicity-driven architecture of the mass media, the latter, as Pei’s work has shown, in fact caught in an opaque entanglement of globalized professionalism, capitalism, and geopolitical power."
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Pei's SPU model recreated by the HKU students
The cable connection to the ground as invented by the HKU students.
Pei's media room at the exhibition.
Pei's SPU model recreated by the HKU students
These images are prepared for reference only -- they are not part of the published article. All the photos are captured by Ho Ting and myself.