- For three years award winning directors Bo Landin and Sterling Van Wagenen have followed 92 year old IM Pei in his work to complete the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar. Their documentary film tells the story of a man who has transformed architecture around the world. His work with the Louvre in Paris, and the introduction of the glass pyramid that upset some and fascinated many, is just an example of his insightful bravery to cross cultural divides and bridge worlds that has so much to learn from each other.—Anonymous
- Culture, Nature, and Light: These elements provide the structure of the documentary film that explores the mind and heart of one of the world's master architects, Chinese-American I.M. Pei, while chronicling his latest creation: the Museum if Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. Already in his 90's, he embarked on another spectacular odyssey, perhaps his toughest yet. "Islamic architecture has a desert origin, and therefore it has a certain modesty I don't want to lose," Pei says in the film. The film visits the Alhambra and Cordoba in Spain, and Cairo in search of Pei's inspiration for the Qatar museum. The new museum has already been dubbed, when it opened in 2008, "The Louvre of the Middle East," and has been baptized an architectural world wonder, exposing one of the worlds most magnificent collections of Islamic art.
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What is the English language plot outline for Learning from Light: The Vision of I.M. Pei (2009)?
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