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The first curtain wall to be designed by computer was in this architect’s limestone- and marble-heavy design for the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. This architect designed the Fountain Place skyscraper in that same city, where this architect added a redundant set of oval columns to a political office to assuage the mayor’s fears that the 34-degree slope of its “inverted” walls was unstable. This architect used pink-tinted, bush-hammered concrete to emulate Anasazi cliff dwellings (-5[1])in his design for an NCAR facility. This architect of Dallas City Hall and Mesa Laboratory was taken on a road trip (10[1])by Rolling Stone to brainstorm his “glass tent” design for a pyramid near Lake Erie. For 10 points, Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was designed by what Chinese-American architect? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: I. M. Pei [or Ieoh Ming Pei]
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