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 The Louvre Pyramid, Paris Ieoh Ming Pei (Chinese; pinyin: Bèi Yùmíng; 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. Early life and education Ieoh Ming Pei was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong 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.[1] 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. 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 Chung 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.[2] 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 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. 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 1972 - Governor's Residence Halls at SUNY Buffalo 1972 - Dallas, Texas City Hall 1972 - Paul Mellon Arts Center at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut 1972 - Pei Residence Halls at New College of 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[3] Official East Building project webpage 1975 - OCBC Centre in Singapore. 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[4] 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) 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 - Energy Plaza, Dallas, Texas 1985 - Wiesner building, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1986 - Fountain Place, Dallas, Texas 1987 - CenTrust Tower, Miami, Florida 1989 - Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas 1989 - Carl 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 Pyramide du Louvre website. (See also: La Pyramide Inversée.) 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 1995 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in Cleveland, Ohio 2001 - Friend Center for Engineering, at Princeton University. 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. 2006 - Martha Stewart Center for Living at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, New York (currently under construction). Reference Gero von Boehm, Conversations with I.M. Pei: "Light is the Key" ISBN 3791321765 Michael Cannell, I.M. Pei : Mandarin of Modernism ISBN 0517799723 #(Excerpt) Carter Wiseman, I. M. Pei: A Profile in American Architecture ISBN 0810934779 | ||