I. M. Pei
Place Ville-Marie by I.M.Pei, in Montreal, Canada |
Pyramid by I.M.Pei. The structure is an entrance to the Louvre in Paris, France Interior of science center at Choate Rosemary Hall. |
Ieoh Ming Pei (貝聿銘 pinyin Bèi Yùmíng) is a Chinese American architect born in Canton, (now Guangzhou), China on April 26, 1917.
After receiving his education at St. Paul's College, Hong Kong, he moved to the United States to study architecture. In 1940, he was awarded the Alpha Rho Chi Medal, the MIT Travelling Fellowship and the AIA Gold Medal when he received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1942, he enrolled in the Harvard Graduate School of Design. A few months later, he serviced on the National Defence Research Committee in Princeton. In 1944, he returned to Harvard; in 1946, he received his master degree in Architecture and stayed as an assistant professor. In 1951, he received the Wheelwright Travelling Fellowship. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1954.
Pei, the last "master" of high modernist architecture, has been described as an architect who focuses on abstract form. He prefers materials such as stone, concrete, glass, and steel.
While Pei is one of the most successful 20th century architects in the world, with numerous landmark buildings and extensions to his name, his work has had little influence on architectural theory.
- 1961 – 1967 National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colorado, USA
- 1961 – Kips Bay Plaza, in New York, New York, USA [1]
- 1962 – Place Ville-Marie, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- 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
- 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
- 1970 – National Airlines terminal at JFK Airport in New York, New York
- 1971 – Harbor Towers
- 1972 – Dallas City Hall
- 1972 – Paul Mellon Arts Center at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut
- 1973 – Commerce Court in Toronto, Ontario
- 1974 – 1978 East Building, National Gallery of Art, in Washington, DC
- 1976 – John Hancock Tower, in Boston, Massachusetts
- 1976 – University of Rochester's Wilson Commons
- 1978 – 1982 Indiana University Art Museum in Bloomington, Indiana
- 1979 – John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, in Boston, Massachusetts
- 1979 – 1986 Javits Convention Center in New York, New York
- 1973 – Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York
- 1981 – the Texas Commerce Tower in Houston, Texas, currently J.P. Morgan Chase Tower; (3D/International cooperated with Pei on the design of this building)
- 1982 – 1990 Bank of China Tower, in Hong Kong
- 1983 – Energy Plaza, Dallas, Texas
- 1985 – Wiesner building, MIT, Boston, Massachusetts
- 1986 – Fountain Place, Dallas, Texas
- 1989 – Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas
- 1989 – Carl Icahn Center for Science at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut
- 1989 – Pyramid of the Louvre, in Paris, France
- Pyramide du Louvre website. (See also: La Pyramide Inversée.)
- 1991 – Miho Museum, Shiga, Japan
- 1995 – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in Cleveland, Ohio
- 2003 – extension building to the Deutsches Historisches Museum (German history museum), in Berlin, Germany.
- 2005 – Ferguson Center for the Arts at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia.
Reference
- Gero von Boehm, Conversations with I.M. Pei: "Light is the Key"