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Chinese-American architect Ieoh Ming Pei (April 26, 1917-May 16, 2019), is arguably the greatest living member of the modernist generation of architects. When he received his Pritzker Prize in 1983, the jury citation stated that he "has given this century some of its most beautiful interior spaces and exterior forms."

Born in Suzhou, China, I.M. Pei grew up in Hong Kong and Shanghai before deciding to move to the United States to study architecture. Though he was uninspired by the Beaux-Arts traditions at both the University of Pennsylvania and MIT, a professor convinced him to persevere. He received his Bachelor's degree in 1940, when the second Sino-Japanese War forced him to abandon his plans to return to his home country - in the end, a fortuitous event for the young architect, as it allowed him to discover the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, where Pei worked with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer.

Pei founded his own practice in 1955, then known as I.M. Pei & A

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In 2016, the Pritzker Prize- and Royal Gold Medal-winning architect I.M. Pei celebrated his 100th birthday one year early, when artist Cai Guo-Qiang threw a party in his New York studio. ‘Chinese people like to celebrate their birthdays early, fearing that gods might take them away upon discovering their longevity,’ Cai said at the time. The cake was a replica of the striking glass-and-metal pyramid that stands in the main courtyard of the Louvre in Paris, emblematic of the Grand Louvre modernization project that Pei led. ‘That project taught me that to know a country you have to work there on a project of consequence,’ Pei told The New York Times in 2006. ‘So, after that project I told myself, “Let’s learn about the world.”’

Pei was born in Canton, now known as Guangzhou, China, on April 26, 1917, to Tsuyee Pei, a former governor of the Chinese Nationalists’ Central Bank of China and a prominent figure in the development of the modern banking system in China, and Aileen Chiang Pei, the daughter of Chiang Lu-Foo, who served as the chargé d’affaires for the Chinese embassies

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I. M. Pei

Chinese-American architect (1917–2019)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Pei or Bèi.

Ieoh Ming PeiFAIARIBA^[2] (YOH ming PAY;^[3]^[4] Chinese: 貝聿銘; pinyin: Bèi Yùmíng; April 26, 1917 – May 16, 2019) was a Chinese-American architect. Born in Guangzhou into a Chinese family, Pei drew inspiration at an early age from the garden villas at Suzhou, the traditional retreat of the scholar-gentry to which his family belonged. In 1935, he moved to the United States and enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania's architecture school, but quickly transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unhappy with the focus on Beaux-Arts architecture at both schools, he spent his free time researching emerging architects, especially Le Corbusier.

After graduating from MIT, Pei enrolled in the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) where he befriended faculty members Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, both of whom had formerly taught at the Bauhaus.

Beginning in 1948, Pei worked as an in-house architect for New York City