Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Pei Yaoqing" ¶ 2
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Pei and Yaoqing
* Pei Yaoqing
* Pei Yaoqing
Around the new year 733, Emperor Xuanzong removed then-chancellors Xiao Song and Han Xiu from their chancellor positions, and named Pei Yaoqing and Zhang to replace them — ordering Zhang to end his period of mourning, which was to last for three years, early, making him Zhongshu Shilang but with the chancellor de facto designation of Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhanshi ( 同中書門下平章事 ).
" However, it was also said that he was praised for recommending the well-respected officials Song Jing, Pei Yaoqing, and Xu Jingxian ( 許景先 ).
Pei Yaoqing ( 裴耀卿 ) ( 681 – 743 ), courtesy name Huanzhi ( 渙之 ), formally Marquess Wenxian of Zhaocheng ( 趙城文獻侯 ), was a poet and politician of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong.
Pei Yaoqing was born in 681, during the reign of Emperor Gaozong.
Early in the Kaiyuan era ( 713-741 ) of Emperor Ruizong's son Emperor Xuanzong, Pei Yaoqing was made the magistrate of Chang ' an County — one of the two counties making up the Tang capital Chang ' an.

Pei and was
The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity is housed in an 11-story structure originally built for The Christian Science Publishing Society constructed between 1932 and 1934, and the present plaza was constructed in the late 1960s and early 1970s to include a 28 story administration building, a colonnade, and a reflecting pool with fountain, designed by Araldo Cossutta of I. M. Pei and Partners ( now Pei Cobb Freed ).
In the early 1980s, Pei was the focus of controversy when he designed a glass-and-steel pyramid for the Louvre museum in Paris.
Ieoh Ming Pei was born on April 26, 1917 to Tsuyee Pei and Lien Kwun, and the family moved to Hong Kong one year later.
As a boy, Pei was very close to his mother, a devout Buddhist who was recognized for her skills as a flautist.
Pei's ancestors ' success meant that the family lived in the upper echelons of society, but Pei said his father was " not cultivated in the ways of the arts ".
At the age of ten, Pei moved with his family to Shanghai after his father was promoted.
As a pain reliever, she was prescribed opium, and assigned the task of preparing her pipe to Pei.
Pei was fascinated by the representations of college life in the films of Bing Crosby, which differed tremendously from the academic atmosphere in China.
Pei was more intrigued by modern architecture, and also felt intimidated by the high level of drafting proficiency shown by other students.
MIT's architecture faculty was also focused on the Beaux-Arts school, and Pei found himself uninspired by the work.
Pei was inspired by the innovative designs of the new International style, characterized by simplified form and the use of glass and steel materials.
" Pei was also influenced by the work of US architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
She enrolled in the landscape architecture program at Harvard University, and Pei was thus introduced to members of the faculty at Harvard's Graduate School of Design ( GSD ).
The US realized that its bombs used against the stone buildings of Europe would be ineffective against Japanese cities, mostly constructed from wood and paper ; Pei was assigned to work on incendiary bombs.
In the spring of 1948 Pei was recruited by New York real estate magnate William Zeckendorf to join a staff of architects for his firm of Webb and Knapp to design buildings around the country.
Pei found Zeckendorf's personality the opposite of his own ; his new boss was known for his loud speech and gruff demeanor.
Zeckendorf was well connected politically, and Pei enjoyed learning about the social world of New York's city planners.
Soon Pei was so inundated with projects that he asked Zeckendorf for assistants, which he chose from his associates at the GSD, including Henry N. Cobb and Ulrich Franzen.
Pei was commissioned to design the Luce Memorial Chapel in Taiwan by the same organization that ran the middle school he had attended in Shanghai.
The pedestrian walkway at the ground floor, however, was prone to sudden gusts of wind, which embarrassed Pei.
Pei was able to return to hands-on design when he was approached in 1961 by Walter Orr Roberts to design the new Mesa Laboratory for the National Center for Atmospheric Research outside Boulder, Colorado.

Pei and said
Pei said: " My father began living his own separate life pretty soon after that.
Pei said that " Bing Crosby's films in particular had a tremendous influence on my choosing the United States instead of England to pursue my education.
Pei said he wanted the Mesa Laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research to look " as if it were carved out of the mountain ".
Pei simply smiled and said: " No compromises.
Pei said of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center: " The complications exceeded even my expectations.
Pei was acutely aware, as he said, that " the history of Paris was embedded in the stones of the Louvre.
The combination of off-centered wraparounds and angled walls was, Pei said, designed to provide " a sense of tumultuous youthful energy, rebelling, flailing about ".
In its citation, the jury said: " Ieoh Ming Pei has given this century some of its most beautiful interior spaces and exterior forms ... His versatility and skill in the use of materials approach the level of poetry.
However, Pei Songzhi's commentary, based on the Dianlue ( 典略 ), said that Liu Bei was a descendant of the Marquis of Linyi ( 臨邑侯 ).
It was said that Liu Shan, then already several years old, was separated from Liu Bei when the latter was attacked by Cao Cao in Xiaopei ( 小沛 ; present-day Pei County, Jiangsu ) in 200.
It was said that, while Yuan had no resentment toward Pei personally, he wanted to be chancellor and was fearful that if Pei were victorious, Pei would be recalled and would again dominate the court, and therefore Yuan, as well as his ally Wei Hongjian, were interfering with requests that Pei was making of Emperor Muzong during the campaign.
( It was said that the capitulation was advocated by Yuan, who wanted to relieve Pei of his military command.
However, after Yuwen's removal, it was said that revenues decreased sharply, and Emperor Xuanzong questioned Pei Guangting and other officials who had criticized Yuwen, " You all claim that Yuwen Rong is evil, and I have removed him.

0.150 seconds.