I.M. Pei
The Louvre Pyramid, Paris, designed by Pei
Born	April 26, 1917 (1917-04-26) (age 90) Canton, China
Occupation	Architect

Ieoh Ming Pei (Chinese: 貝聿銘; Pinyin: Bèi Yùmíng; b. April 26, 1917), commonly known by his initials I. M. Pei, is a Pritzker Prize-winning Chinese American architect, known as the last master of high modernist architecture. He works with the abstract form, using stone, concrete, glass, and steel. Pei is one of the most successful architects of the 20th century. Image File history File links Louvre_at_night_centered. ... The large glass pyramid of le musée du Louvre The Louvre Pyramid is a large metal and glass pyramid which serves as the main entrance to the Musée du Louvre and has become a landmark for the city of Paris. ... It has been suggested that List of visitor attractions in Paris be merged into this article or section. ... is the 116th day of the year (117th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China. ... Guangzhou is the capital and the sub-provincial city of Guangdong Province in the southern part of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Pinyin, more formally called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ), is the most common variant of Standard Mandarin romanization system in use. ... is the 116th day of the year (117th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honor a living architect. ... A Chinese American is an American who is of ethnic Chinese descent. ... An architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person who is involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ... This article focuses on the cultural movement labeled modernism or the modern movement. See also: Modernism (Roman Catholicism) or Modernist Christianity; Modernismo for specific art movement(s) in Spain and Catalonia. ... This article is about building architecture. ... For other uses, see Rock (disambiguation). ... This article is about the construction material. ... This article is about the material. ... For other uses, see Steel (disambiguation). ...

Early life and education

Pei was born in Canton (now called Guangzhou), in China on April 26, 1917, to a prominent family. His father, a banker, was later the director of the Bank of China and the governor of the Central Bank of China. His family later moved to Shanghai, but resided in Suzhou, a city near Shanghai. The family's residence is in a renowned garden in Suzhou, now part of the World Heritage Site listed Classical Gardens of Suzhou. The house was called the Garden of the Lion Forest, and consisted of many rock sculptures carved naturally by water. Pei loved how the buildings and the nature were combined, and especially liked the way light and shadow mixed. Guangzhou is the capital and the sub-provincial city of Guangdong Province in the southern part of the Peoples Republic of China. ... is the 116th day of the year (117th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... Bank of China Limited (BOC) SEHK: 3988 (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ; often abbreviated as 中行) is one of the big four state-owned commercial banks of the Peoples Republic of China. ... For other uses, see Shanghai (disambiguation). ... Suzhou (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: ; ancient name: 吳) is a city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the shores of Lake Taihu in the province of Jiangsu, China. ... A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated and confirmed for inclusion on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 State...

His first education was at St. Paul's College, Hong Kong and then at Saint John's University, Shanghai before moving to the United States to study architecture at the age of 18 at the University of Pennsylvania. He received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1940. He is a 1940 recipient of the Alpha Rho Chi Medal, the MIT Traveling Fellowship, and the AIA Gold Medal. He then studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Design Shortly after his studies there, he was a member of the National Defense Research Committee in Princeton, New Jersey. ^[1] Several colleges around the world are called Saint Pauls College or St. ... Saint Johns University (圣约翰大学) was an Anglican university located in Shanghai, China. ... For other uses, see Shanghai (disambiguation). ... This article is about the private Ivy League university in Philadelphia. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is a graduate school at Harvard University offering degrees in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning and Design. ... In June of 1940, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) to coordinate, supervise, and conduct scientific research on the problems underlying the development, production, and use of mechanisms and devices of warfare. ... Nassau Street, Princetons main street. ...

In 1944, he returned to Harvard, studying under Walter Gropius, who was previously associated with the Bauhaus. He received a master degree in Architecture in 1946. He was a member of the Harvard faculty subsequently attaining the rank of assistant professor. He received the Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship in 1951 and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1954.^[2] Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969) was a German architect and founder of Bauhaus. ... Typography by Herbert Bayer above the entrance to the workshop block of the Bauhaus, Dessau, 2005. ... Naturalization is the process whereby a person becomes a national of a nation, or a citizen of a country, other than the one of his birth. ...

Career

In 1948, William Zeckendorf hired Pei to work at the real estate development corporation Webb and Knapp in a newly created post, Director of Architecture. While at Webb and Knapp, Pei worked on many large-scale architectural and planning projects across the country. ^[3] William Zeckendorf, Sr. ... Webb and Knapp is the development company of William Zeckendorf, which developed such notable places as: Roosevelt Airfield, site of the start of Charles Lindberghs and Amelia Earharts transatlantic flights. ...

Pei founded his own architectural firm in 1955, which was originally known as I. M. Pei and Associates and, later, I. M. Pei & Partners until 1989 when it became known as Pei Cobb Freed & Partners recognizing James Ingo Freed and Henry N. Cobb. Pei Cobb Freed & Partners is an architectural firm that was founded in 1955 bei I.M. Pei as , in 1966 called , and received its current name and organization in 1989. ... James Ingo Freed (June 23, 1930-December 15, 2005) was an American architect of German Jewish heritage. ... Henry N. Cobb (born 1926 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American architect and founding partner in Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, an international architectural firm based in New York City. ...

Personal Life

Despite his immense wealth, Pei is considered to be a very humble man.

Project list

• 1954–1959 — Mile High Center, in Denver, Colorado, USA
• 1961–1967 — National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colorado, USA
• 1961 — Kips Bay Plaza, in New York, New York, USA [1]
• 1961 — Government Center Master Plan, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• 1962 — Place Ville-Marie, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• 1962 — Kennedy Theatre, University of Hawaii, USA, Official web page
• 1962 — Hale Manoa Dormitory, East West Center, University of Hawaii, USA
• 1963 — Luce Memorial Chapel, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan
• 1963 — Society Hill Towers – Philadelphia, PA, Unofficial website
• 1964 — Green Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 1964 — S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University — Syracuse, New York
• 1966–1968 — Sculpture Wing of the Des Moines Art Center in Des Moines, Iowa
  • Official page of Pei's Sculpture Wing
• 1966 — Silver Towers at New York University
• 1967 — Hoffman Hall at University of Southern California
• 1968–1972 — 50 FAA air traffic control towers, in various locations throughout the United States, such as O'Hare International Airport, Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, Columbia Metropolitan Airport (South Carolina), and Indianapolis International Airport (since demolished).
• 1968–1974 — Christian Science Center, in Boston, Massachusetts
• 1968 — Everson Museum of Art, in Syracuse, New York
• 1969 — Cleo Rogers Memorial Library, in Columbus, Indiana
• 1969 — Academic Center, State University of New York at Fredonia, Fredonia, New York
• 1970 — National Airlines terminal at JFK Airport in New York, New York
• 1971 — Harbor Towers, in Boston, Massachusetts
• 1971 — American Life Insurance Company Building (renamed Wilmington Tower), in Wilmington, Delaware
• 1972 — Governor's Residence Halls at SUNY Buffalo
• 1972 — Dallas City Hall, Dallas, Texas
• 1972 — Paul Mellon Arts Center at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut
• 1972 — Pei Residence Halls at New College of Florida, Sarasota, Florida
• 1973 — Commerce Court West in Toronto, Ontario
• 1973 — Spelman Halls at Princeton University
• 1973 — Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York
• 1974–1978 — East Building, National Gallery of Art, in Washington, DC^[4]
  • Official East Building project webpage
• 1975 — OCBC Centre in Singapore.
• 1975 — The Lamar Building Penthouse in Augusta, Georgia
• 1976 — John Hancock Tower, in Boston, Massachusetts — Pei gives Henry Cobb the credit for this building
• 1976 — University of Rochester's Wilson Commons
• 1978–1982 — Indiana University Art Museum in Bloomington, Indiana
• 1979 — John F. Kennedy Library, in Boston, Massachusetts^[5]
• 1979 — One Dallas Centre, in Dallas, Texas^[6]
• 1979 — Baltimore World Trade Center, in Baltimore, Maryland
• 1979–1986 — Javits Convention Center in New York, New York
• 1980–1985 — Raffles City in Singapore.
• 1981 — the Texas Commerce Tower in Houston, Texas, currently the JPMorgan Chase Tower; (3D/International cooperated with Pei on the design of this building). The nearby drive-in bank was Pei's first drive in bank project.
• 1982 — 16th Street Mall in Denver, Colorado.
• 1982–1990 — Bank of China Tower, in Hong Kong
  • Bank of China Tower project website
• 1982 — Apartment for Steve Jobs
• 1983 — ARCO Tower, Dallas, Texas
• 1985 — Wiesner building, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• 1986 — Fountain Place, Dallas, Texas
• 1987 — CenTrust Tower (now Bank of America Tower), Miami, Florida
• 1987 — IBM/Somers Office Complex, Somers, NY
• 1989 — Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas
• 1989 — Carl C. Icahn Center for Science at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut
• 1989 — Headquarters for Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles, California
• 1989 — Pyramids of the Louvre, in Paris, France with Peter Rice
  • Pyramide du Louvre website. (See also: La Pyramide Inversée.)
• 1990 — The Gateway, Singapore
• 1991 — Miho Museum, Shiga, Japan
  • Official museum website
  • Official information on the architecture
• 1992 — The Kirklin Clinic of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System, Birmingham, Alabama
• 1994 — Four Seasons Hotel New York, New York City, New York
• 1995 — Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in Cleveland, Ohio
• 1997 — Miho Museum, near Kyoto, Japan.
• 1999–2006 — Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
  • Official museum website The Folly at Oare House in England
• 2001 — Essensa East Forbes, Fort Bonifacio, Philippines
• 2001 — Friend Center for Engineering, at Princeton University.
• 2002 — Tour EDF, La Défense, France
• 2003 — extension building to the Deutsches Historisches Museum (German history museum), in Berlin, Germany.
• 2005 — Ferguson Center for the Performing Arts at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia.
• 2005 — Bossone Research Enterprise Center at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 2006 — Martha Stewart Center for Living at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan (currently under construction).
• 2006 — Embassy of the People’s Republic of China, Washington D.C.(currently under construction).
• 2002–2006 — New wing of Suzhou Museum, in Suzhou, China
• 2004–2007 — Museum of Islamic Arts in Doha, Qatar
• 2002–2008 — Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA
• 2009 — NASCAR Hall of Fame, Charlotte, North Carolina.
  • Project website

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Selected works

1961 — National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 1047 KB) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ... NCAR, Boulder, Colorado National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is a U.S.-based institute whose stated mission is: NCARs flagship Mesa Laboratory is located in the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado, in a dramatic complex of buildings designed by architect I.M. Pei. ... The City of Boulder ( , Mountain Time Zone) is a home rule municipality located in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. ...	1963 — Luce Memorial Chapel, Tunghai University, Taiwan Image File history File linksMetadata THU_Luce_Memorial_Chapel. ... Luce Memorial Chapel, Tunghai University, Taiwan. ... Tunghai University (zh-tw: 東海大學, Pe̍h-oÄ“-jÄ«: Tang-hái-täi-hãk), or THU, is a Christian, privately founded university that located in Taichung, Taiwan. ...	1964 — Green Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1920x2560, 1003 KB) Green Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Green Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...	1972 — Paul Mellon Arts Center, Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Connecticut Image File history File links Choate_Rosemary_Hall_-_Arts_Center. ... Paul Mellon Arts Center, Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Connecticut. ... Choate Rosemary Hall Choate Rosemary Hall (commonly referred to as Choate) is a New England preparatory school for students (who call themselves Choaties) in grades 9-12, known as the third through sixth forms at the school. ... Wallingford is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. ...
1974 — The East Building of the National Gallery of Art Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The West building of the National Gallery of Art with the East building visible behind and to to the left The National Gallery of Art is an art museum, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum was established in 1937 by the Congress, with funds for...	1978 — Indiana University Art Museum at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2266x1467, 554 KB) Summary Indiana University Art Museum taken by me Fall of 2005. ... The Indiana University Art Museum was designed by I.M. Pei & Partners as a commission by the board of trustees of Indiana University. ... Indiana University is the principal campus of the Indiana University system. ... Location in the state of Indiana Coordinates: County Monroe Mayor Mark Kruzan Area    - City 51. ...	1989 — Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong Download high resolution version (500x667, 70 KB)Bank of China at night; Self photographed; 2001; File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... BOC Tower at night The Bank of China Tower (short: BOC Tower; 中銀大廈) is a huge skyscraper in Central, Hong Kong. ...	1995 — The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, showing Lake Erie in the foreground ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 184 KB) Photographer: Jason Pratt from Pittsburgh, PA Title: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Taken on: 2004-02-15 17:40:48 Original source: Flickr. ... The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at sunset. ... Lake Erie (pronounced ) is the tenth largest lake on Earth[2] and, of the five Great Lakes of North America, is the fourth largest by surface area, the southernmost, shallowest, and smallest by volume. ...

2007 — time-lapse video of the construction of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

Family and later life

In 1990, Pei retired from his firm but still maintains an office there. He has 4 children, 2 of them architects. He has two sons, Chien Chung (Didi) Pei and Li Chung (Sandi) Pei, who have their own firm. I. M. Pei has participated in design work with his son's firm, Pei Partnership Architects ^[7] in 1992. ^[8]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

I. M. Pei

• Pei Cobb Freed & Partners website
• Interview with I.M. Pei (June 2004)
• New York Architecture Images- Pei, Cobb, Freed
• Pritzker Prize biography, Photo Gallery, and Acceptance Speech
• Ieoh Ming Pei information at Structurae
• Biography (World of Biography)