ARCHITECTURE USA 1980
John F. Kennedy Library Boston - I.M.Pei 1979, 1980
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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Boston by I.M. Pei & Partners Completed in 1979 the complex of the Library and Presidential Museum JFK, work of the study I.M....
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Boston
by I.M. Pei & Partners
Completed in 1979 the complex of the Library and Presidential Museum JFK, work of the study I.M. Pei & Partners, is dedicated to the thirty-fifth president of the United States.
Under a glass pavilion are distributed the administrative areas and the museum,
overlooking the harbor.
Plans to build the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum were in progress prior to Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 and accelerated after it took place.
The architect I.M. Pei de I.M. Pei & Associates was chosen to design the library,a Modernist structure composed of an amalgamated cube of glass and concrete, a pyramid and a cylinder.