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By : Jonathan Glancey Published: Wednesday 7 October 2009 15.49 BST From: The Guardian Website:http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/oct/07/im-pei-gold-medal-architecture IM Pei wins Royal Gold Medal for Architecture The quiet geometries of this Chinese-American architect make him an unfashionable but deserving recipient of RIBAs architecture award At home in its grandiloquent setting ... Peis Louvre pyramid in Paris. IM Pei, the 92-year-old Chinese-American architect named yesterday as the recipient of the 2010 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, has long cut a serene figure in his profession. He certainly is not a fashionable architect today, and perhaps he has never been one. And, yet, through a long career beginning when he moved to the US to study architecture in 1934, he has produced powerful buildings, designed to outlive passing fads, that are much liked and respected by those who use and own them. The best of Peis designs boil down complex functions to monuments of quietly arresting simplicity. Bank of China, Hong Kong Theres the east wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, with its magnificent deployment of daylight, the soaring, kite-like, 1,000-ft-high Bank of China in Hong Kong and, of course, Frances Pyramide du Louvre. Although not an architect associated with controversy, the pyramid embroiled Pei in a battle over whether or not this elegant project should be built. Many hated the idea of a new, hi-tech entrance to the all-but-sacred Louvre: there were demonstrations, volleys of angry words and near violence as a significant number of Parisians fought to keep the steel-and-glass pyramid at bay. Since it opened in 1989, the structure appears to have settled into its grandiloquent setting. Today, its as much photographed by tourists as the decorative stone buildings that house the Mona Lisa. The Pyramid, however, is the exception to Peis prodigious portfolio of international buildings rather than a typical example. If the Q