Formerly of Harvard School of Architecture faculty, founds I.M. Pei Associates, Architects.
Born 1917, to prominent ancestral Chinese family in Guandong, China… influenced by Mies van der Rohe, Gropius, Bauhaus schools…
Among the many noted I.M. Pei works around the world:
National Center for Atmospheric Research,
Boulder, CO (1961–1967)
Luce Memorial Chapel, Taiwan (1963)
Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong (1982–1990)
Pyramids of the Louvre, Paris (1989) with Peter Rice
Miho Museum, Shiga, Japan, (1996)
note: post–1990, Pei was officially “retired” from the firm
Rock and Roll “Hall of Fame,” Cleveland, OH (1995)
Museum of Islamic Arts, Doha, Qatar (2004–2007)