I. M. Pei

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Image:Louvre at night centered.jpg Ieoh Ming Pei (Template:Zh-cp; b. April 26, 1917), commonly known as his initial I. M. Pei, is a Pritzker Prize winning 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.

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Early life and education

Ieoh Ming Pei was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China on April 26, 1917 to a prominent banker.

His first education was in Shanghai and then at St. Paul's College, Hong Kong before moving to the United States to study architecture at the age of 18. He started at the University of Pennsylvania before going on to receive his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1940. That same year, he was awarded the Alpha Rho Chi Medal, the MIT Travelling Fellowship, and the AIA Gold Medal. He enrolled at the Harvard Graduate School of Design two years later; shortly thereafter, he served at the National Defense Research Committee in Princeton, New Jersey.

In 1944 he returned to Harvard, received his master degree in Architecture in 1946 and stayed at Harvard as an assistant professor. He received the Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship in 1951 and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1954.<ref>Official biography from Pei Cobb Freed & Partners website</ref>

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Career

Pei operated his own architectural firm, founded in 1955, which was known as I. M. Pei & Partners until 1989 when it became known as Pei Cobb Freed & Partners recognizing James Ingo Freed and Henry N. Cobb.

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Personal life

I.M. Pei has three sons: T'ing Chung Pei, Chien Chung (Didi) Pei, Li Chung (Sandi) Pei, and a daughter: Liane Pei. Chien Chung and Li Chung both have followed their father to the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Chien Chung Pei helped his father design the Louvre addition from 1989 to 1993. Li jChung Pei helped his father design the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong in 1989. Both became architects practicing under their own firm, Pei Partnerships. I.M. Pei has helped out at the firm since his retirement from his own firm in 1990.<ref>Conversation with I.M. Pei about JFK Museum, Boston - with Robert Campbell, critic, Boston Globe (audio/video stream)</ref>

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Project list

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Selected works

1961 - National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado

1963 - Luce Memorial Chapel, Tunghai University, Taiwan

1964 - Green Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1972 - Paul Mellon Arts Center, Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Connecticut

1974 - The East Building of the National Gallery of Art

1978 - Indiana University Art Museum at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana

1989 - Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong

1995 - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, showing Lake Erie in the background

First Bank Place, Minnepolis, MN 1992

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Reference

  1. Gero von Boehm, Conversations with I.M. Pei: "Light is the Key" ISBN 3791321765
  2. Michael Cannell, I.M. Pei : Mandarin of Modernism ISBN 0517799723 #(Excerpt)
  3. Carter Wiseman, I. M. Pei: A Profile in American Architecture ISBN 0810934779

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