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About Suzhou Museum

A design system drawn from I. M. Pei's Suzhou Museum, where the white plaster wall and dark roof of the Jiangnan town become pure geometry. The page is sunlit lime plaster. China Black granite caps every field, outlines every opening and folds the roofline into diamonds.

It works as a plan of walled courts rather than one open canvas. Each card is a white room under a dark cap rule, each button an outlined opening, and the empty wall carries the composition. Rooms are entered off-axis, never straight down a monumental center line.

Learn more about the Suzhou Museum style

Origin
Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Era
Designed 2000–2006; opened October 2006
Key figures
I. M. Pei · Chien Chung (Didi) Pei · Li Chung (Sandi) Pei
Movements
Late modernism · Geometric abstraction of Jiangnan garden architecture · Museum as landscape

Suzhou Museum design spec

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Typography

Noto Serif SCHeadings
ArchivoBody
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