The authors state that I. M. Pei's "great projects are some of the most important of their time," adding that "the crisp geometric monumentality of the East Wing of the National Gallery, Washington, DC (1978), has been called the first late-modern building." "The Louvre (1989), with its steel and glass pyramid and its rational reworking of the chaotic museum, is one of the sights of Paris. And the Bank of China, in Hong Kong (1989), with its triangular geometry, is one of the few really memorable super-high-rises. 'He's not a design influence,' said Philip Johnson, "He's just Mr. Success.' Yet from the fringes of high architecture, he has done more than most to shape the world." His greatest building is unquestionably the East Wing, a thrilling adventure in angularity.