It is good to learn from the ancients," says IM Pei with a smile. "I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape. Today, we rush everything, but architecture is slow, and the landscapes it sits in even slower. It needs the time our political systems won't allow."
Impeccably mannered and quietly spoken, Pei, now 92, has walked an architectural tightrope for half a century. Marrying ancient and modern, he has created buildings as influential as the trapezoid-shaped east wing of Washington's National Gallery of Art, as ambitious as the Bank of China's soaring HQ in Hong Kong, and as controversial as the Pyramide du Louvre in Paris. He has won pretty much every prize his profession has to offer; last month he was presented with the prestigious royal gold medal for architecture, a gift of the Queen, presented by the Royal Institute for British Architects. "A wonderful honour," he says, when we meet in London's Mandarin Oriental hotel, "for someone who hasn't really built here."
They also enjoyed lunch at a suite in the nearby Hotel du Louvre during a break in filming. Earlier, Brad, 46, took daughters Zahara, 5, and Shiloh, 3, 
National Gallery of Art, as ambitious as the Bank of China's soaring HQ in Hong Kong, and as controversial as the Pyramide du Louvre in Paris. 
Raphael holds his face up jubilantly to the wind as we cross the Seine via the Pont du Louvre, past IM Pei's pyramid and the Eglise St Roch, 
Next was the Carousel du Louvre, a boutique mall on the lower level of the museum, with popular stores like Esprit, L'Occitane, Sephora and others with 
Viennent ensuite Groupe du Louvre (Louvre Hotel et Concorde Hotels etc), filiale de l'Américain Starwood, qui bénéficie du rapprochement opéré l'an dernier 
