Ieoh Ming Pei (I. M. Pei, born 1917)
Ieoh Ming Pei, born 1917 in Canton, China. He left China when he was seventeen to study architecture at MIT (Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1940) and Harvard, where he studied under Walter Gropius and finished his studies in 1946.
Pei worked as an instructor and then as an assistant professor at Harvard before he joined Webb & Knapp Inc. in New York in 1948. Pei worked as the head of the architectural division of Webb and Knapp, Inc. until 1960. In 1955 he formed the partnership of I. M. Pei & Associates, which became I. M. Pei & Partners in 1966, and Pei Cobb Freed & Partners in 1989.
Ieoh Ming Pei designed the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. His more recent works include the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, the Grand Louvre in Paris, the Miho Museum in Shiga, Japan, the Schauhaus at the German Historical Museum in Berlin, and the Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean in Luxembourg. Among Mr. Pei's skyscraper designs are the 72-story Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong and the Four Seasons Hotel in midtown Manhattan. He has completed two projects in his native China: the Fragrant Hill Hotel in Beijing and the Suzhou Museum in Suzhou. Through all his career Mr. Pai has been awarded numerous prices and honorships all over the world.
Important Buildings:
- American Life Insurance Company Building, (renamed Wilmington Tower), Wilmington, Delaware
- Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong
- Bedford-Stuyvesant Superblock, Brooklyn, New York
- Buck Institute for Age Research, Marin County, California
- Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce,Commerce Court, Toronto, Canada
- Cecil and Ida Green Center for Earth Sciences,Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Central Business District General Neighborhood Renewal Plan, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Central Business District Project I-A Development Plan, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Choate Rosemary Hall Science Center, Wallingford, Connecticut
- Cleo Rogers Memorial County Library, Columbus, Indiana
- Columbia University Comprehensive Master Plan, New York, New York
- Court House Square, Denver, Colorado
- Creative Artists Agency, Beverly Hills, California
- Dallas City Hall, Dallas, Texas
- Des Moines Art Center Addition, Des Moines, Iowa
- Everson Museum of Art,Syracuse, New York
- FAA Air Traffic Control Towers, Various cities, United States and abroad
- Four Seasons Hotel, New York, New York
- Fragrant Hill Hotel, Beijing, China
- Gateway Towers, Singapore
- Government Center Urban Renewal Plan, Boston, Massachusetts
- Grand Louvre, Paris, France
- Guggenheim Pavilion,The Mount Sinai Medical Center Expansion & Modernization, New York, New York
- Gulf Oil Building, Atlanta, Georgia
- Helix, New York, New York
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art,Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
- Hyperboloid, New York, New York
- IBM Corporate Office Building (now MasterCard International Global Headquarters), Purchase, New York
- IBM Office Building Complex, Somers, New York
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, Boston, Massachusetts
- Kips Bay Plaza,New York,New York
- La Caixa Bank Headquarters, Barcelona (Sant Cugat), Spain
- Luce Memorial Chapel,Taichung, Taiwan
- Mile High Center, Denver, Colorado
- Musée d'Art Moderne, Kitchberg, Luxembourg
- Museum of Fine Arts - West Wing and Renovation, Boston, Massachusetts
- National Airlines Terminal, (renamed TWA Terminal Annex), JFK International Airport, New York, New York
- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
- National Gallery of Art, East Building, Washington, D.C.
- New College - Dormitories, Student Union and Academic Center, Sarasota, Florida
- Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Centre, Singapore
- Paul Mellon Center for the Arts,The Choate School, Wallingford, Connecticut
- Raffles City, Singapore
- Ralph Landau Chemical Engineering Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Republic of Korea Permanent Mission to the United Nations, New York, New York
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, Ohio
- School of Journalism - S. I. Newhouse Communications Center, Syracuse, New York
- Society Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Southwest Washington Urban Renewal Plan, Washington, D.C.
- Sunning Plaza, Hong Kong
- Tête de la Défense, Paris, France
- Texas Commerce Tower, United Energy Plaza, Houston, Texas
- The Kirklin Clinic, University of Alabama Health Services Foundation, Birmingham, Alabama
- The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas
- University Plaza, New York University, New York, New York
- Washington Square East Urban Renewal Plan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Wiesner Building / Center for Arts & Media Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
