JFK Library
Also known as John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
1979
Modernism
museum
I.M. Pei's John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum was dedicated in October 1979 on Columbia Point, after years of false starts on a Cambridge site near Harvard. Pei composed the building as a memorial rather than an archive box…
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- 1979
I.M. Pei & Partners, I.M. Pei
- 1991
I.M. Pei and Pei Cobb Freed & Partners added the Stephen E. Smith Center to the library complex, bringing the total floor area to roughly 164,000 square feet by adding archive, education, and support space alongside the original 1979…
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