Novelist Daniel Silva paid tribute Thursday to I.M. Pei, following the death of the internationally recognized architect.
“In honor of the great architect I.M. Pei who left us today at the age of 102,” Silva said in an Instagram post with the cover of his 2011 book Portrait of a Spy. The cover prominently features the Pei-designed glass pyramid at the Louvre museum in Paris, where the novel is partially set.
“An amazing artist I.M.Pei has died. Gabriel and I both admired his remarkable art and architecture. See the cover of Portrait of a Spy,” Silva said on Twitter, mentioning the main character of many of his novels, Gabriel Allon.
Silva is a New York Times bestselling author of more than 20 spy novels and a former executive producer at CNN.
I.M. Pei, who died Thursday at age 102, was one of the most renowned architects of the 20th century.
Pei designed the controversial Louvre pyramid, along with L’Enfant Plaza and the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among many other modernist buildings.
“Architecture is like a tree,” Pei said in an interview with the the Washington Post in 1978. “It grows and matures and branches out. I am part of that tree, of that movement, not starting, or ending, or following anything.”
