2019年5月16日，华裔建筑大师贝聿铭（I.M. Pei）去世，享年102岁。

World-renowned architect Ieoh Ming Pei, commonly known as I.M. Pei, has died at the age of 102 at his home in Manhattan, according to multiple reports on Thursday.

据多家媒体16日报道，世界著名建筑师贝聿铭于曼哈顿家中去世，享年102岁。

贝聿铭和他设计的卢浮宫前的玻璃金字塔 图片来源：NPR

After the news broke, many of Pei's admirers took to Twitter to express regret and to tweet pictures of beloved Pei buildings.

这条新闻爆出后，不少贝聿铭的追随者都在国外社交媒体上表达他们的痛惜之情，贴出他们最喜欢的贝聿铭的作品。

他的作品享誉世界。他曾经登上《时代》杂志封面，也曾出现在美国总统肯尼迪、法国总统密特朗、首次访美的邓小平身旁。

贝聿铭花了一个世纪的时间，把自己设计的建筑种在4个大洲、10个国家的土地上。

《今日美国》发表文章称，他的作品改变了世界的各地的城市，受到无数建筑师的追捧（his work transformed cities around the world and was widely celebrated by fellow architects）。

美国全国广播公司写道：

Crowds around the world flow through the buildings designed by architect I.M. Pei; in Paris, they stream into the Louvre's Pyramid entrance. In Cleveland, they wander through the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. And in Hong Kong, they travel up and down the soaring Bank of China Tower.

世界各地的人群都穿梭于贝聿铭设计的建筑之中。在巴黎，他们涌入卢浮宫金字塔形的入口。在克利夫兰，他们漫步在摇滚名人堂。在中国香港，他们上下徘徊于高耸入云的中国银行大厦。

贝聿铭设计的德国历史博物馆 图片来源：Andreas Levers\Flickr

然而，他的建筑却并非从一开始就受众人追捧。

曾备受争议，时间为他正名

值得一提的是，贝聿铭是历史上首个参与卢浮宫建设的外国建筑师。

但这个玻璃型金字塔却没有在刚诞生时赢得满堂彩。

Pei was the first foreign architect to work on the Louvre in its long history, and initially his designs were fiercely opposed. But in the end, the French — and everyone else — were won over.

贝聿铭是在卢浮宫的悠长历史上首个参与其建设的外国人，他的设计起先保守争议，但是后来他的设计征服了法国人，当然还有全世界。

图片来源：Mike Ault/Flickr

当1988年，他的作品首次面世，反响并不热烈（not well received）。

贝聿铭曾在采访中提及此事：

"I would say the first year and a half was really hell," the architect said in a PBS documentary. "I couldn't walk the streets of Paris without people walking looking at me and saying, There you go again. What are you doing here? What are you doing to us? What are you doing to our great Louvre?"

“不得不说刚开始的一年半简直是煎熬，”贝聿铭在美国公共广播公司的纪录片中说道。“我走在巴黎的大街上，大家都会看着我说，你又来了。你怎么还有脸在这儿呢？看看你对我们做了什么，对我们伟大的卢浮宫做了什么。”

随着时间的推移，人们深深地感到了这个玻璃建筑的动人之处：

Two decades passed and, in 2009, NPR's Susan Stamberg paid a visit to the Pyramid. Henri Loyrette, the Louvre's director at the time, called it a masterpiece.

20年过去了，2009年，NPR记者Susan Stamberg造访了卢浮宫玻璃金字塔，时任卢浮宫博物馆馆长的Henri Loyrette将其称为杰作。

He said that when you ask visitors why they are at the Louvre, they generally give three answers: for the Mona Lisa, for the Venus de Milo and for the Pyramid. It was not the first time shock has given way to admiration in architecture.

他说，如果问起游客为何来卢浮宫，他们一般都会给你三个答案：看蒙娜丽莎、看维纳斯像、看玻璃金字塔。在建筑史上，这已经不是第一次震惊给惊艳让路了。

外媒不吝赞美：谦逊而勤勉

贝聿铭出生在中国，为他做传记的Carter Wiseman表示，中国传统建筑对贝聿铭独树一帜的设计风格有着深远的影响。

贝聿铭设计的苏州博物馆 图片来自网络

▌深受中国建筑影响

He grew up in a house where gardens and airy pavilions merged with the landscape. Pei biographer Carter Wiseman says that the natural world deeply influenced Pei.

在贝聿铭长大的房子里，那里的园林和亭台与风景融为一体。贝聿铭传记的作者Carter Wiseman表示，自然世界深深影响着贝聿铭。

"Having come from China, where he was exposed to garden architecture, he had a very different concept of time," Wiseman explains. "He was interested in the sculptural properties of rocks. There was an affinity for nature and for history that most Americans do not get, no matter how hard we try."

“贝聿铭来自中国，在园林建筑的影响下，他对时间有着非同寻常的概念。”Wiseman解释说。“他对岩石的雕塑般的属性非常感兴趣。贝聿铭的设计理念对自然和历史都有一种亲近感，这是众多美国设计师求而不得的。”

贝聿铭设计的香港的中国银行大厦 Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images

Wiseman曾写道，贝聿铭曾获得过所有重要的奖项（every award of any consequence），还曾在1992年获得过总统自由勋章（Presidential Medal of Freedom）。

但是贝聿铭却对这些荣誉始终保持着谦逊的态度。

据NPR报道，贝聿铭曾站在他设计的美国国家美术馆东馆前表示，这个设计“还好。”（I think it's all right）。

美国国家美术馆东馆 Getty Images

Standing before one of his greatest creations, Pei was his usual diffident self. “I think it's all right,” he told a reporter as he surveyed the sharply angular forms of the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 2003.

站在他最伟大的设计之一面前，贝聿铭还是一如既往地谦虚。2003年，贝聿铭在查看美国国家美术馆东馆的角形结构时对记者说：“我觉得还好。”

diffident ['dɪfɪd(ə)nt] adj. 羞怯的；缺乏自信的

作者写到这里就非常不淡定了……

Just “all right?” Not one of the 10 best buildings in the USA, as it was voted in a 1986 poll of American architects conducted by American Institute of Architects? Not one of the most recognized buildings anywhere? Not an “architectural hallelujah,” as a gallery trustee declared on its 25th anniversary in 2003?

仅仅是“还好？”这难道不是1986年美国建筑师评出来的全美十佳建筑之一？这难道不是全球最受认可的建筑之一？难道不是2003年美术馆受托人在其25周年时评价的“建筑界颂歌？”

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谦逊而不露锋芒是贝聿铭抹不掉的品质。他表示，25年还不足以评价建筑的优劣：

“But 25 years is not enough time to make a judgment,” Pei told The Washington Post on that occasion. “Architecture is stones and brick, concrete and steel. Architecture has to endure.”

“25年还不足以做评论，”贝聿铭在美国国家美术馆25周年时对《华盛顿邮报》说道。“建筑就是砖石、水泥和钢筋。它必须能经受时间考验。”

除了谦逊，外媒注意到他另一个作为华人建筑师的美德：勤奋努力。

贝聿铭一直到90多岁了仍在工作：

He was working almost to his 90s: Even though he cut back a bit in the 1990s, he continued to put in hours at his New York firm and at the offices of his two sons, Pei Partnership Architects.

他90多岁了还在工作。虽然可能上世纪90年代后放缓了一些，但他仍然还是会在他纽约的公司和两个儿子贝氏建筑事务所的办公室里待上数个小时。

贝聿铭说，自己要“慢慢地退休”，不要突然地停下工作。

“I’m retiring slowly,” Pei told a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1994. “It’s best not to retire abruptly as long as one has health and can continue to work.”

1994年，贝聿铭告诉《费城问询者报》的记者说，“我正在慢慢地退休，只要我健康，还能工作，就最好不要突然退休。”

《今日美国》在评价这位艺术家的时候，更是不吝惜赞美之词：

Hard-working, energetic, genuinely humble, exceedingly charming: These are not always the attributes of great artists, but they were often used by multiple colleagues, rivals and critics, who hailed Pei in his lifetime as a world-class architect — and a most endearing man.

勤奋努力、精力充沛、由衷地谦逊又极其迷人：不是所有的伟大艺术家都拥有这些特质，但是贝聿铭的同事、对手和评论家都会用这些词来形容他，并认为，贝聿铭是一位世界级建筑大师，同时又是一个最可爱的人。

大师虽已远去，但他的名字却已经成为超越时代的存在。

像网友说的那样：“您设计的建筑在，您就还在。”

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