Learning from the Light
Description
World-renowned architect I. M. Pei was already in his 90s when he took on designing the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. This documentary, from award-winning filmmaker, Bo Landin, visits Alhambra and Cordoba in Spain, and Cairo to search for references to understand the essence of Pei's architecture that will find its historical place in an Islamic world stretching from Cordoba to Samarkand.
Runtime
57 min
Subjects
- Commercial art (35)
- Graphic arts (79)
- Computer graphics (96)
- Architecture, Modern (230)
- Architects (68)
- Design (87)
Contributor
Genre
Date of Publication
[2013], c2009
Database
Films on Demand
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