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DC.. </div> </a> <ul id="toc-National_Gallery_East_Building,_Washington,_DC..-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Fragrant_Hills,_China" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Fragrant_Hills,_China"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.10 Fragrant Hills, China </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Fragrant_Hills,_China-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Javits_Center,_New_York" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Javits_Center,_New_York"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.11 Javits Center, New York </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Javits_Center,_New_York-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Grand_Louvre,_Paris" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Grand_Louvre,_Paris"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.12 Grand Louvre, Paris </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Grand_Louvre,_Paris-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Meyerson_Symphony_Center,_Dallas" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Meyerson_Symphony_Center,_Dallas"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.13 Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Meyerson_Symphony_Center,_Dallas-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bank_of_China,_Hong_Kong" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bank_of_China,_Hong_Kong"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.14 Bank of China, Hong Kong </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bank_of_China,_Hong_Kong-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1990–2019:_museum_projects" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1990–2019:_museum_projects"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 3.15 1990–2019: museum projects </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1990–2019:_museum_projects-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Style_and_method" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Style_and_method"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4 Style and method </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Style_and_method-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Awards_and_honors" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Awards_and_honors"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Awards and honors </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Awards_and_honors-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Personal_life" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Personal_life"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Personal life </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Personal_life-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-In_popular_culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#In_popular_culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 In popular culture </div> </a> <ul id="toc-In_popular_culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 References </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-References-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle References subsection </button> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.1 Notes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bibliography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bibliography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.2 Bibliography </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bibliography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Documentaries" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Documentaries"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9.3 Documentaries </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Documentaries-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 External links </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" 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M. Pei</h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. 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M. Pei – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Basa Bali</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AE%D0%B9_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%91%D1%8D%D0%B9" title="Юй Мин Бэй – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Юй Мин Бэй" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target">Башҡортса</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8D%D0%B9_%D0%AE%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%96%D0%BD" title="Бэй Юймін – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Бэй Юймін" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AE%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%96%D0%BD_%D0%91%D1%8D%D0%B9" title="Юймін Бэй – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Юймін Бэй" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.M.Pei" title="I.M.Pei – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="I.M.Pei" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bikol Central</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D1%83_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%B9" title="Яу Мин Пей – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Яу Мин Пей" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bosanski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.M._Pei" title="I.M. Pei – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="I.M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%99.%CE%9C._%CE%A0%CE%AD%CE%B9" title="Ι.Μ. Πέι – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ι.Μ. Πέι" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%DB%8C._%D8%A7%D9%85._%D9%BE%DB%8C" title="آی. ام. پی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="آی. ام. پی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a href="https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Fiji Hindi" lang="hif" hreflang="hif" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Fiji Hindi" data-language-local-name="Fiji Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">Fiji Hindi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._%ED%8E%98%EC%9D%B4" title="I. M. 페이 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="I. M. 페이" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%85%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B5_%D5%84%D5%AB%D5%B6_%D5%93%D5%A5%D5%B5" title="Յույ Մին Փեյ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Յույ Մին Փեյ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%88%E0%A5%B0%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%B0_%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%88" title="आई॰एम॰ पेई – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="आई॰एम॰ पेई" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.M._Pei" title="I.M. Pei – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="I.M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Interlingua</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99_%D7%90%D7%9D_%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%99" title="איי אם פיי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="איי אם פיי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kapampangan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%98%E1%83%A3%E1%83%B0_%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%9C_%E1%83%9E%E1%83%94%E1%83%98" title="იუჰ მინ პეი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="იუჰ მინ პეი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kernowek</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kiswahili</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ladin</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bei_Juimins" title="Bei Juimins – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Bei Juimins" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lëtzebuergesch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malagasy</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%90.%E0%B4%8E%E0%B4%82.%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%86%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8D" title="ഐ.എം.പെയ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഐ.എം.പെയ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mi mw-list-item"><a href="https://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Māori" lang="mi" hreflang="mi" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Māori" data-language-local-name="Māori" class="interlanguage-link-target">Māori</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%AF.%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%AE._%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%87" title="आय.एम. पेइ – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="आय.एम. पेइ" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target">मराठी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%87_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%89" title="ايوه مينج باى – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ايوه مينج باى" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%82%A4" title="イオ・ミン・ペイ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="イオ・ミン・ペイ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.M._Pei" title="I.M. Pei – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="I.M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.M._Pei" title="I.M. Pei – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="I.M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.M._Pei" title="I.M. Pei – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="I.M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Runa Simi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8D%D0%B9_%D0%AE%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD" title="Бэй Юймин – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Бэй Юймин" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target">Scots</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pej" title="Ieoh Ming Pej – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pej" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenščina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%D8%A7%DB%8C._%D8%A6%DB%8E%D9%85._%D9%BE%DB%8C" title="ئای. ئێم. پی – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="ئای. ئێم. پی" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">کوردی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%88%D0%BE_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%98" title="Јо Минг Пеј – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Јо Минг Пеј" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.M._Pei" title="I.M. Pei – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="I.M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tagalog</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%90._%E0%AE%8E%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D._%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%AF%E0%AF%8D" title="ஐ. எம். பேய் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="ஐ. எம். பேய்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target">தமிழ்</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%84%E0%B8%AD._%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%AD%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%A1._%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%9E" title="ไอ. เอ็ม. เพ – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ไอ. เอ็ม. เพ" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target">ไทย</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%AE%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%96%D0%BD" title="Бей Юймін – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Бей Юймін" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Українська</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tiếng Việt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vo mw-list-item"><a href="https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ieoh_Ming_Pei" title="Ieoh Ming Pei – Volapük" lang="vo" hreflang="vo" data-title="Ieoh Ming Pei" data-language-autonym="Volapük" data-language-local-name="Volapük" class="interlanguage-link-target">Volapük</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-classical mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B2%9D%E8%81%BF%E9%8A%98" title="貝聿銘 – Literary Chinese" lang="lzh" hreflang="lzh" data-title="貝聿銘" data-language-autonym="文言" data-language-local-name="Literary Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">文言</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Waray" lang="war" hreflang="war" data-title="I. M. Pei" data-language-autonym="Winaray" data-language-local-name="Waray" class="interlanguage-link-target">Winaray</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B4%9D%E8%81%BF%E9%93%AD" title="贝聿铭 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="贝聿铭" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target">吴语</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-yue mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B2%9D%E8%81%BF%E9%8A%98" title="貝聿銘 – Cantonese" lang="yue" hreflang="yue" data-title="貝聿銘" data-language-autonym="粵語" data-language-local-name="Cantonese" class="interlanguage-link-target">粵語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bat-smg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bat-smg.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._M._Pei" title="I. M. Pei – Samogitian" lang="sgs" hreflang="sgs" data-title="I. M. 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M. Pei</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_American_Institute_of_Architects" title="Fellow of the American Institute of Architects">FAIA</a> <a href="/wiki/Royal_Institute_of_British_Architects" title="Royal Institute of British Architects">RIBA</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="nickname" lang="zh-Hant"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style>貝聿銘</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:Itzhak_Perlman_with_I.M._Pei,_architect,_looking_at_model_of_NYC_Convention_Center_(03124v)_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Itzhak_Perlman_with_I.M._Pei%2C_architect%2C_looking_at_model_of_NYC_Convention_Center_%2803124v%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Itzhak_Perlman_with_I.M._Pei%2C_architect%2C_looking_at_model_of_NYC_Convention_Center_%2803124v%29_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Itzhak_Perlman_with_I.M._Pei%2C_architect%2C_looking_at_model_of_NYC_Convention_Center_%2803124v%29_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="334" /></a><div class="infobox-caption">Pei in 1980</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Ieoh Ming Pei</div> (1917-04-26)April 26, 1917 <div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a>, Guangdong, Republic of China</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">May 16, 2019(2019-05-16) (aged 102) <div style="display:inline" class="deathplace">New York City, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">American</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania</a> <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Architecture" title="Bachelor of Architecture">BArch</a>) <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Master_of_Architecture" title="Master of Architecture">MArch</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Architect</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Eileen Loo</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1942; died 2014)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">4</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Royal_Gold_Medal" title="Royal Gold Medal">Royal Gold Medal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AIA_Gold_Medal" title="AIA Gold Medal">AIA Gold Medal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom">Medal of Freedom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pritzker_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Pritzker Prize">Pritzker Prize</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Praemium_Imperiale" title="Praemium Imperiale">Praemium Imperiale</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Practice</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist" style="margin-left:1em;text-indent:-1em;"> <ul><li>I. M. Pei & Associates (1955–2019)</li> <li>I. M. Pei & Partners (1966–2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pei_Cobb_Freed_%26_Partners" title="Pei Cobb Freed & Partners">Pei Cobb Freed & Partners</a> (1989–2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pei_Partnership_Architects" class="mw-redirect" title="Pei Partnership Architects">Pei Partnership Architects</a> (consultant, 1992–2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Buildings</th><td class="infobox-data note"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li::after{content:" · ";font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li:last-child::after{content:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="John F. Kennedy Library">John F. Kennedy Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art" title="National Gallery of Art">National Gallery of Art</a> East Building</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_Louvre" title="Grand Louvre">Grand Louvre</a> & <a href="/wiki/Louvre_Pyramid" title="Louvre Pyramid">Louvre Pyramid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bank_of_China_Tower,_Hong_Kong" class="mw-redirect" title="Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong">Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Islamic_Art,_Doha" title="Museum of Islamic Art, Doha">Museum of Islamic Art, Doha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indiana_University_Art_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Indiana University Art Museum">Indiana University Art Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_F._Johnson_Museum_of_Art" title="Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art">Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miho_Museum" title="Miho Museum">Miho Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hancock_Tower" title="John Hancock Tower">John Hancock Tower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roosevelt_Field_(shopping_mall)" title="Roosevelt Field (shopping mall)">Roosevelt Field</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_View_(Pittsburgh)" title="City View (Pittsburgh)">City View (Pittsburgh)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr style="display:none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;">Chinese name</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters" title="Traditional Chinese characters">Traditional Chinese</a></th><td class="infobox-data">貝聿銘</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters" title="Simplified Chinese characters">Simplified Chinese</a></th><td class="infobox-data">贝聿铭</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox-subbox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="display:inline-table; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left;color: #202122; background-color: #f9ffbc;">Transcriptions</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Standard_Chinese" title="Standard Chinese">Standard Mandarin</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hanyu_Pinyin" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanyu Pinyin">Hanyu Pinyin</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Bèi Yùmíng</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Wade%E2%80%93Giles" title="Wade–Giles">Wade–Giles</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Pei4 Yü4-ming2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Yale_romanization_of_Mandarin" title="Yale romanization of Mandarin">Yale Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Bèi Yùmíng</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Mandarin" title="Help:IPA/Mandarin">IPA</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Mandarin" title="Help:IPA/Mandarin">[pêɪ ŷ.mǐŋ]</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Wu_Chinese" title="Wu Chinese">Wu</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Suzhounese" class="mw-redirect" title="Suzhounese">Suzhounese</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Pě Yueh Mín</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Cantonese" title="Cantonese">Yue: Cantonese</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Yale_romanization_of_Cantonese" title="Yale romanization of Cantonese">Yale Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Bui Yuht Mìhng</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Jyutping" title="Jyutping">Jyutping</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Bui3 Jyut6 Ming4</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Cantonese" title="Help:IPA/Cantonese">IPA</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Cantonese" title="Help:IPA/Cantonese">[pūːi jỳːt mɪ̏ŋ]</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> Ieoh Ming Pei <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_American_Institute_of_Architects" title="Fellow of the American Institute of Architects">FAIA</a> <a href="/wiki/Royal_Institute_of_British_Architects" title="Royal Institute of British Architects">RIBA</a><a href="#cite_note-Pei_Cobb_Freed_&_Partner-2">[2]</a> (<a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˌjoʊ mɪŋ ˈpeɪ/</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key">YOH ming PAY</a>;<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Suzhou" title="Suzhou">Suzhou</a>, the traditional retreat of the <a href="/wiki/Scholar-gentry" class="mw-redirect" title="Scholar-gentry">scholar-gentry</a> to which his family belonged. In 1935, he moved to the United States and enrolled in the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania</a>'s architecture school, but quickly transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a>. Unhappy with the focus on <a href="/wiki/Beaux-Arts_architecture" title="Beaux-Arts architecture">Beaux-Arts architecture</a> at both schools, he spent his free time researching emerging architects, especially <a href="/wiki/Le_Corbusier" title="Le Corbusier">Le Corbusier</a>. After graduating from MIT, Pei enrolled in the <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Graduate_School_of_Design" title="Harvard Graduate School of Design">Harvard Graduate School of Design</a> (GSD) where he befriended faculty members <a href="/wiki/Walter_Gropius" title="Walter Gropius">Walter Gropius</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marcel_Breuer" title="Marcel Breuer">Marcel Breuer</a>, both of whom had formerly taught at the <a href="/wiki/Bauhaus" title="Bauhaus">Bauhaus</a>. Beginning in 1948, Pei worked as an in-house architect for New York City real estate developer <a href="/wiki/William_Zeckendorf" title="William Zeckendorf">William Zeckendorf</a>. In 1955, he established an independent design firm, I. M. Pei & Associates. In 1966, the firm was reorganized as I. M. Pei & Partners, and in 1989 reorganized as <a href="/wiki/Pei_Cobb_Freed_%26_Partners" title="Pei Cobb Freed & Partners">Pei Cobb Freed & Partners</a>. Pei retired from full-time practice in 1990. In his retirement, he worked as an architectural consultant primarily with his sons' architectural firm <a href="/wiki/Pei_Partnership_Architects" class="mw-redirect" title="Pei Partnership Architects">Pei Partnership Architects</a>. Pei's first major recognition came with the <a href="/wiki/Mesa_Laboratory" title="Mesa Laboratory">Mesa Laboratory</a> at the <a href="/wiki/National_Center_for_Atmospheric_Research" title="National Center for Atmospheric Research">National Center for Atmospheric Research</a> in Colorado (designed in 1961, and completed in 1967). His new stature led to his selection as chief architect for the <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="John F. Kennedy Library">John F. Kennedy Library</a> in Massachusetts. He went on to design <a href="/wiki/Dallas_City_Hall" title="Dallas City Hall">Dallas City Hall</a> and the <a href="/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art#Architecture" title="National Gallery of Art">East Building</a> of the <a href="/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art" title="National Gallery of Art">National Gallery of Art</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> He returned to China for the first time in 1975 to design a hotel at <a href="/wiki/Fragrant_Hills" title="Fragrant Hills">Fragrant Hills</a> and, fifteen years later, designed <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_China_Tower,_Hong_Kong" class="mw-redirect" title="Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong">Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong</a>. In the early 1980s, Pei was the focus of controversy when he designed <a href="/wiki/Louvre_Pyramid" title="Louvre Pyramid">a glass-and-steel pyramid</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Louvre" title="Louvre">Louvre</a> in Paris. He designed the <a href="/wiki/Morton_H._Meyerson_Symphony_Center" title="Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center">Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center</a> in <a href="/wiki/Dallas" title="Dallas">Dallas</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Miho_Museum" title="Miho Museum">Miho Museum</a> in Japan, Shigaraki, near Kyoto, and the chapel of the junior and high school: MIHO Institute of Aesthetics, the <a href="/wiki/Suzhou_Museum" title="Suzhou Museum">Suzhou Museum</a> in Suzhou,<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Islamic_Art,_Doha" title="Museum of Islamic Art, Doha">Museum of Islamic Art</a> in Qatar, and the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Duke_Jean_Museum_of_Modern_Art" class="mw-redirect" title="Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art">Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art</a> in Luxembourg. Pei won prizes and awards in the field of architecture, including the <a href="/wiki/AIA_Gold_Medal" title="AIA Gold Medal">AIA Gold Medal</a> in 1979, the first <a href="/wiki/Praemium_Imperiale" title="Praemium Imperiale">Praemium Imperiale</a> for Architecture in 1989, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the <a href="/wiki/Cooper-Hewitt,_National_Design_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum">Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum</a>, in 2003. In 1983, he won the <a href="/wiki/Pritzker_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Pritzker Prize">Pritzker Prize</a>, which is sometimes referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Childhood">Childhood</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Childhood">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shizlinhehuaci.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The Shizilin Garden in Suzhou. Men and women stand on curving rock formations overlooking a pond containing flowery plants." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Shizlinhehuaci.jpg/220px-Shizlinhehuaci.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Shizlinhehuaci.jpg/330px-Shizlinhehuaci.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Shizlinhehuaci.jpg/440px-Shizlinhehuaci.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2370" data-file-height="1591" /></a><figcaption>As a child, Pei found the <a href="/wiki/Lion_Grove_Garden" title="Lion Grove Garden">Shizilin Garden</a> in <a href="/wiki/Suzhou" title="Suzhou">Suzhou</a> to be "an ideal playground".<a href="#cite_note-vb18-7">[7]</a></figcaption></figure> I. M. Pei's ancestry traces back to the <a href="/wiki/Ming_dynasty" title="Ming dynasty">Ming dynasty</a>, when his family moved from <a href="/wiki/Anhui" title="Anhui">Anhui</a> to <a href="/wiki/Suzhou" title="Suzhou">Suzhou</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The family made their wealth in medicinal herbs, then joined the ranks of the <a href="/wiki/Scholar-gentry" class="mw-redirect" title="Scholar-gentry">scholar-gentry</a>.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> Pei Ieoh Ming was born on April 26, 1917, to <a href="/wiki/Tsuyee_Pei" title="Tsuyee Pei">Tsuyee</a> and Lien Kwun, and the family moved to Hong Kong one year later. It eventually included five children. As a boy, Pei was very close to his mother, a devout <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhist</a>, who was recognized for her skills as a flautist. She invited him, but not his brothers or sisters, to join her on meditation retreats.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> His relationship with his father was less intimate. Their interactions were respectful but distant.<a href="#cite_note-Wiseman,_p._31-10">[10]</a> Pei's ancestors' success meant that the family lived in the upper echelons of society, but Pei said his father was "not cultivated in the ways of the arts".<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> The younger Pei, drawn more to music and other cultural forms than to his father's domain of banking, explored art on his own. "I have cultivated myself," he said later.<a href="#cite_note-Wiseman,_p._31-10">[10]</a> Pei studied in <a href="/wiki/St._Paul%27s_College,_Hong_Kong" title="St. Paul's College, Hong Kong">St. Paul's College</a> in Hong Kong as a child. When Pei was 10, his father received a promotion and relocated with his family to Shanghai.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> Pei attended St. John's Middle School, the secondary school of <a href="/wiki/St._John%27s_University,_Shanghai" title="St. John's University, Shanghai">St. John's University</a> that was run by <a href="/wiki/Anglican" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglican">Anglican</a> missionaries. Academic discipline was rigorous; students were allowed only one half-day each month for leisure. Pei enjoyed playing <a href="/wiki/Cue_sports" title="Cue sports">billiards</a> and watching Hollywood movies, especially those of <a href="/wiki/Buster_Keaton" title="Buster Keaton">Buster Keaton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin" title="Charlie Chaplin">Charlie Chaplin</a>. He also learned rudimentary English by reading the Bible and novels by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>.<a href="#cite_note-w3133-13">[13]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Customs_House_and_the_Hong_Kong_and_Shanghai_Bank.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The Bund area of Shanghai. Pedestrians walk before a row of trees and a series of tall buildings. A blue sky overhead is obscured slightly by several clouds." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Customs_House_and_the_Hong_Kong_and_Shanghai_Bank.jpg/220px-Customs_House_and_the_Hong_Kong_and_Shanghai_Bank.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Customs_House_and_the_Hong_Kong_and_Shanghai_Bank.jpg/330px-Customs_House_and_the_Hong_Kong_and_Shanghai_Bank.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Customs_House_and_the_Hong_Kong_and_Shanghai_Bank.jpg/440px-Customs_House_and_the_Hong_Kong_and_Shanghai_Bank.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2288" data-file-height="1520" /></a><figcaption>Pei describes the architecture of Shanghai's <a href="/wiki/The_Bund_(Shanghai)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Bund (Shanghai)">Bund</a> waterfront area (seen here in a 2004 photo) as "very much a colonial past".<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a></figcaption></figure> Shanghai's many international elements gave it the name "Paris of the East".<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> The city's global architectural flavors had a profound influence on Pei, from <a href="/wiki/The_Bund_(Shanghai)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Bund (Shanghai)">The Bund</a> waterfront area to the <a href="/wiki/Park_Hotel_Shanghai" title="Park Hotel Shanghai">Park Hotel</a>, built in 1934. He was also impressed by the many gardens of Suzhou, where he spent the summers with extended family and regularly visited a nearby ancestral shrine. The <a href="/wiki/Lion_Grove_Garden" title="Lion Grove Garden">Shizilin Garden</a>, built in the 14th century by a Buddhist monk and owned by Pei's uncle Bei Runsheng, was especially influential. He spoke later of his fondness for the garden's blending of natural and human-built structures.<a href="#cite_note-vb18-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-w3133-13">[13]</a> Soon after the move to Shanghai, Pei's mother developed cancer. She was prescribed <a href="/wiki/Opium" title="Opium">opium</a> for pain and assigned the task of preparing her pipe to Pei. She died shortly after his thirteenth birthday, and he was profoundly upset.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> The children were sent to live with extended family, as their father became more consumed by his work. Pei said: "My father began living his own separate life pretty soon after that."<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> His father later married a woman named Aileen, who moved to New York later in her life.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education_and_formative_years">Education and formative years</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Education and formative years">edit</a>]</div> As Pei neared the end of his secondary education, he decided to attend university. He was accepted by a number of schools, but enrolled at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania</a>.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> Pei's choice had two roots. While studying in Shanghai, he had closely examined the catalogs for various institutions of higher learning around the world. The architectural program at the University of Pennsylvania stood out to him.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> The other major factor was Hollywood. Pei was fascinated by the representations of college life in the films of <a href="/wiki/Bing_Crosby" title="Bing Crosby">Bing Crosby</a>, which differed tremendously from the academic atmosphere in China. "College life in the U.S. seemed to me to be mostly fun and games", he said in 2000. "Since I was too young to be serious, I wanted to be part of it ... You could get a feeling for it in Bing Crosby's movies. College life in America seemed very exciting to me. It's not real, we know that. Nevertheless, at that time it was very attractive to me."<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> Pei added that "Crosby's films in particular had a tremendous influence on my choosing the United States instead of England to pursue my education."<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> In 1935, Pei boarded a boat and sailed to <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>, then traveled by train to <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>. What he found once he arrived differed vastly from his expectations. Professors at the University of Pennsylvania based their teaching in the <a href="/wiki/Beaux-Arts_architecture" title="Beaux-Arts architecture">Beaux-Arts style</a>, rooted in the classical traditions of <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">ancient Greece</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Rome</a>. Pei was more intrigued by <a href="/wiki/Modern_architecture" title="Modern architecture">modern architecture</a>, and also felt intimidated by the high level of <a href="/wiki/Architectural_drawing" title="Architectural drawing">drafting</a> proficiency shown by other students. He decided to abandon architecture and transferred to the engineering program at <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> (MIT). Once he arrived, however, the dean of the architecture school commented on his eye for design and convinced Pei to return to his original major.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> MIT's architecture faculty was also focused on the Beaux-Arts school, and Pei found himself uninspired by the work. In the library he found three books by the Swiss-French architect <a href="/wiki/Le_Corbusier" title="Le Corbusier">Le Corbusier</a>. Pei was inspired by the innovative designs of the new <a href="/wiki/International_Style_(architecture)" class="mw-redirect" title="International Style (architecture)">International Style</a>, characterized by simplified form and the use of glass and steel materials. Le Corbusier visited MIT in November 1935, an occasion which powerfully affected Pei: "The two days with Le Corbusier, or 'Corbu' as we used to call him, were probably the most important days in my architectural education."<a href="#cite_note-vb36-24">[24]</a> Pei was also influenced by the work of U.S. architect <a href="/wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright" title="Frank Lloyd Wright">Frank Lloyd Wright</a>. In 1938 he drove to <a href="/wiki/Spring_Green,_Wisconsin" title="Spring Green, Wisconsin">Spring Green, Wisconsin</a>, to visit Wright's famous <a href="/wiki/Taliesin_(studio)" title="Taliesin (studio)">Taliesin</a> building. After waiting for two hours, however, he left without meeting Wright.<a href="#cite_note-wright-25">[25]</a> Although he disliked the Beaux-Arts emphasis, Pei excelled in his studies. "I certainly don't regret the time at MIT", he said later. "There I learned the science and technique of building, which is just as essential to architecture."<a href="#cite_note-vb40-26">[26]</a> Pei received his <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Architecture" title="Bachelor of Architecture">BArch</a> degree in 1940; his thesis was titled "Standardized Propaganda Units for War Time and Peace Time China".<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a><a href="#cite_note-:1-28">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> While visiting New York City in the late 1930s, Pei met a <a href="/wiki/Wellesley_College" title="Wellesley College">Wellesley College</a> student named Eileen Loo. They began dating and married in the spring of 1942. She enrolled in the <a href="/wiki/Landscape_architecture" title="Landscape architecture">landscape architecture</a> program at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>, and Pei was thus introduced to members of the faculty at Harvard's <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Graduate_School_of_Design" title="Harvard Graduate School of Design">Graduate School of Design</a> (GSD). He was excited by the lively atmosphere and joined the GSD in December 1942.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> Less than a month later, Pei suspended his work at Harvard to join the <a href="/wiki/National_Defense_Research_Committee" title="National Defense Research Committee">National Defense Research Committee</a>, which coordinated scientific research into U.S. weapons technology during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. Pei's background in architecture was seen as a considerable asset; one member of the committee told him: "If you know how to build you should also know how to destroy."<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> The fight against Germany was ending, so he focused on the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_War" title="Pacific War">Pacific War</a>. The U.S. realized that its bombs used against the stone buildings of Europe would be ineffective against Japanese cities, mostly constructed from wood and paper; Pei was assigned to work on <a href="/wiki/Incendiary_device" title="Incendiary device">incendiary bombs</a>. Pei spent two and a half years with the NDRC, but revealed few details of his work.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> In 1945, Eileen gave birth to a son, T'ing Chung, and she withdrew from the landscape architecture program in order to care for him. Pei returned to Harvard in the autumn of 1945, and received a position as assistant professor of design. The GSD was developing into a hub of resistance to the Beaux-Arts orthodoxy. At the center were members of the <a href="/wiki/Bauhaus" title="Bauhaus">Bauhaus</a>, a European architectural movement that had advanced the cause of modernist design. The <a href="/wiki/Nazi_regime" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi regime">Nazi regime</a> had condemned the Bauhaus school, and its leaders left Germany. Two of them, <a href="/wiki/Walter_Gropius" title="Walter Gropius">Walter Gropius</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marcel_Breuer" title="Marcel Breuer">Marcel Breuer</a>, took positions at the Harvard GSD. Their iconoclastic focus on modern architecture appealed to Pei, and he worked closely with both men.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> One of Pei's design projects at the GSD was a plan for an art museum in Shanghai. He wanted to create a mood of Chinese authenticity in the architecture without using traditional materials or styles.<a href="#cite_note-qw44-34">[34]</a> The design was based on straight modernist structures, organized around a central courtyard garden, with other similar natural settings arranged nearby. It was very well received, with Gropius calling it "the best thing done in [my] master class."<a href="#cite_note-qw44-34">[34]</a> Pei received his <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Architecture" title="Master of Architecture">MArch</a> degree in 1946, and taught at Harvard for another two years.<a href="#cite_note-Pei_Cobb_Freed_&_Partner-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Career">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1948–1956:_early_career_with_Webb_and_Knapp">1948–1956: early career with Webb and Knapp</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1948–1956: early career with Webb and Knapp">edit</a>]</div> In the spring of 1948, Pei was recruited by New York real estate magnate <a href="/wiki/William_Zeckendorf" title="William Zeckendorf">William Zeckendorf</a> to join a staff of architects for his firm of <a href="/wiki/Webb_and_Knapp" title="Webb and Knapp">Webb and Knapp</a> to design buildings around the country. Pei found Zeckendorf's personality the opposite of his own; his new boss was known for his loud speech and gruff demeanor. Nevertheless, they became good friends and Pei found the experience personally enriching. Zeckendorf was well connected politically, and Pei enjoyed learning about the social world of New York's city planners.<a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> His first project for Webb and Knapp was an apartment building, which received funding from the <a href="/wiki/Housing_Act_of_1949" title="Housing Act of 1949">Housing Act of 1949</a>. Pei's design was based on a circular tower with concentric rings. The areas closest to the supporting pillar handled utilities and circulation, and the apartments themselves were located toward the outer edge. Zeckendorf loved the design and even showed it off to Le Corbusier when they met. The cost of such an unusual design was too high, however, and the building never progressed beyond the model stage.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:131_Ponce_de_Leon_Ave.,_Atlanta_-_I.M._Pei_building.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="131 Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/131_Ponce_de_Leon_Ave.%2C_Atlanta_-_I.M._Pei_building.JPG/220px-131_Ponce_de_Leon_Ave.%2C_Atlanta_-_I.M._Pei_building.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="92" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/131_Ponce_de_Leon_Ave.%2C_Atlanta_-_I.M._Pei_building.JPG/330px-131_Ponce_de_Leon_Ave.%2C_Atlanta_-_I.M._Pei_building.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/131_Ponce_de_Leon_Ave.%2C_Atlanta_-_I.M._Pei_building.JPG/440px-131_Ponce_de_Leon_Ave.%2C_Atlanta_-_I.M._Pei_building.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2796" data-file-height="1168" /></a><figcaption>Pei's first project (1949): <a href="/wiki/131_Ponce_de_Leon_Avenue" title="131 Ponce de Leon Avenue">131 Ponce de Leon Avenue</a>, Atlanta</figcaption></figure> Pei finally saw his architecture come to life in 1949,<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> when he designed a two-story <a href="/wiki/131_Ponce_de_Leon_Avenue" title="131 Ponce de Leon Avenue">corporate building for Gulf Oil</a> in <a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a>, Georgia. The building was demolished in February 2013 although the front façade was retained as part of an apartment development. His use of marble for the exterior <a href="/wiki/Curtain_wall_(architecture)" title="Curtain wall (architecture)">curtain wall</a> brought praise from the journal Architectural Forum.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> Pei's designs echoed the work of <a href="/wiki/Mies_van_der_Rohe" class="mw-redirect" title="Mies van der Rohe">Mies van der Rohe</a> in the beginning of his career as also shown in his own weekend-house in <a href="/wiki/Katonah,_New_York" title="Katonah, New York">Katonah, New York</a> in 1952. Soon, Pei was so inundated with projects that he asked Zeckendorf for assistants, which he chose from his associates at the GSD, including <a href="/wiki/Henry_N._Cobb" title="Henry N. Cobb">Henry N. Cobb</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ulrich_Franzen" title="Ulrich Franzen">Ulrich Franzen</a>. They set to work on a variety of proposals, including the <a href="/wiki/Roosevelt_Field_(Shopping_Mall)" class="mw-redirect" title="Roosevelt Field (Shopping Mall)">Roosevelt Field Shopping Mall</a> on <a href="/wiki/Long_Island" title="Long Island">Long Island</a>. The team also redesigned the Webb and Knapp office building, transforming Zeckendorf's office into a circular space with <a href="/wiki/Teak" title="Teak">teak</a> walls and a glass <a href="/wiki/Clerestory" title="Clerestory">clerestory</a>. They also installed a control panel into the desk that allowed their boss to control the lighting in his office. The project took one year and exceeded its budget, but Zeckendorf was delighted with the results.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:L%27Enfant_Plaza_-_IMG_1926.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The L'Enfant Plaza complex of office buildings. Two buildings are visible, arranged around a courtyard." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/L%27Enfant_Plaza_-_IMG_1926.JPG/220px-L%27Enfant_Plaza_-_IMG_1926.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/L%27Enfant_Plaza_-_IMG_1926.JPG/330px-L%27Enfant_Plaza_-_IMG_1926.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/L%27Enfant_Plaza_-_IMG_1926.JPG/440px-L%27Enfant_Plaza_-_IMG_1926.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption>Pei wanted the open spaces and buildings of <a href="/wiki/L%27Enfant_Plaza" title="L'Enfant Plaza">L'Enfant Plaza</a> to be "functionally and visually related" to one another.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a></figcaption></figure> In 1952, Pei and his team began work on a series of projects in <a href="/wiki/Denver" title="Denver">Denver, Colorado</a>. The first of these was the Mile High Center, which compressed the core building into less than 25 percent of the total site; the rest is adorned with an exhibition hall and fountain-dotted plazas.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> One block away, Pei's team also redesigned Denver's Courthouse Square, which combined office spaces, commercial venues, and hotels. These projects helped Pei conceptualize architecture as part of the larger urban geography: "I learned the process of development, and about the city as a living organism."<a href="#cite_note-vb52-43">[43]</a> These lessons, he said, became essential for later projects.<a href="#cite_note-vb52-43">[43]</a> Pei and his team also designed a united urban area for Washington, D.C., called <a href="/wiki/L%27Enfant_Plaza" title="L'Enfant Plaza">L'Enfant Plaza</a> (named for French-American architect <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Charles_L%27Enfant" title="Pierre Charles L'Enfant">Pierre Charles L'Enfant</a>).<a href="#cite_note-PeiLenfant-44">[44]</a> Pei's associate <a href="/wiki/Araldo_Cossutta" title="Araldo Cossutta">Araldo Cossutta</a> was the lead architect for the plaza's North Building and South Building.<a href="#cite_note-PeiLenfant-44">[44]</a> <a href="/wiki/Vlastimil_Koubek" title="Vlastimil Koubek">Vlastimil Koubek</a> was the architect for the East Building (<a href="/wiki/L%27Enfant_Plaza_Hotel" class="mw-redirect" title="L'Enfant Plaza Hotel">L'Enfant Plaza Hotel</a>), and for the Center Building (now the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service" title="United States Postal Service">United States Postal Service</a> headquarters).<a href="#cite_note-PeiLenfant-44">[44]</a> The team set out with a broad vision that was praised by both <a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a> and <a href="/wiki/Washington_Star" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Star">Washington Star</a> (which rarely agreed on anything), but funding problems forced revisions and a significant reduction in scale.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a> In 1955, Pei's group took a step toward institutional independence from Webb and Knapp by establishing a new firm called I. M. Pei & Associates. (The name changed later to I. M. Pei & Partners.) They gained the freedom to work with other companies, but continued working primarily with Zeckendorf. The new firm distinguished itself through the use of detailed <a href="/wiki/Architectural_model" title="Architectural model">architectural models</a>. They took on the <a href="/wiki/Kips_Bay" class="mw-redirect" title="Kips Bay">Kips Bay</a> residential area on the <a href="/wiki/East_Side_(Manhattan)" title="East Side (Manhattan)">East Side</a> of <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>, where Pei set up <a href="/wiki/Kips_Bay_Towers" title="Kips Bay Towers">Kips Bay Towers</a>, two large long towers of apartments with recessed windows (to provide shade and privacy) in a neat grid, adorned with rows of trees. Pei involved himself in the construction process at Kips Bay, even inspecting the bags of cement to check for consistency of color.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> The company continued its urban focus with the <a href="/wiki/Society_Hill" title="Society Hill">Society Hill</a> project in central <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a>. Pei designed the <a href="/wiki/Society_Hill_Towers" title="Society Hill Towers">Society Hill Towers</a>, a three-building residential block injecting cubist design into the local 18th-century milieu. As with previous projects, abundant green spaces were central to Pei's vision, which added traditional <a href="/wiki/Townhouse" title="Townhouse">townhouses</a> to aid the transition from classical to modern design.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> From 1958 to 1963, Pei and <a href="/wiki/Ray_Affleck" class="mw-redirect" title="Ray Affleck">Ray Affleck</a> developed a key downtown block of <a href="/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a> in a phased process that involved one of Pei's most admired structures in the Commonwealth, the cruciform tower known as the Royal Bank Plaza (<a href="/wiki/Place_Ville_Marie" title="Place Ville Marie">Place Ville Marie</a>). According to <a href="/wiki/The_Canadian_Encyclopedia" title="The Canadian Encyclopedia">The Canadian Encyclopedia</a> : <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">its grand plaza and lower office buildings, designed by internationally famous US architect I. M. Pei, helped to set new standards for architecture in Canada in the 1960s ... The tower's smooth aluminum and glass surface and crisp unadorned geometric form demonstrate Pei's adherence to the mainstream of 20th-century modern design.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a></blockquote> Although those projects were satisfying, Pei wanted to establish an independent name for himself. In 1959, he was approached by MIT to design a building for its <a href="/wiki/Earth_science" title="Earth science">Earth science</a> program. The <a href="/wiki/Green_Building_(MIT)" title="Green Building (MIT)">Green Building</a> continued the grid design of Kips Bay and Society Hill. The pedestrian walkway on the ground floor, however, was prone to sudden gusts of wind, which embarrassed Pei. "Here I was from MIT," he said, "and I didn't know about <a href="/wiki/Wind-tunnel" class="mw-redirect" title="Wind-tunnel">wind-tunnel</a> effects."<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> At the same time, he co-designed the <a href="/wiki/Luce_Memorial_Chapel" title="Luce Memorial Chapel">Luce Memorial Chapel</a> at <a href="/wiki/Tunghai_University" title="Tunghai University">Tunghai University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Taichung" title="Taichung">Taichung</a>, Taiwan. The soaring structure, commissioned by the same organization that had run his middle school in Shanghai, broke severely from the cubist grid patterns of his urban projects.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a><a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> The challenge of coordinating those projects took an artistic toll on Pei. He found himself responsible for acquiring new building contracts and supervising the plans for them. As a result, he felt disconnected from the actual creative work. "Design is something you have to put your hand to," he said. "While my people had the luxury of doing one job at a time, I had to keep track of the whole enterprise."<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> Pei's dissatisfaction reached its peak at a time when financial problems began plaguing Zeckendorf's firm. I. M. Pei and Associates officially broke from Webb and Knapp in 1960, which benefited Pei creatively but pained him personally. He had developed a close friendship with Zeckendorf, and both men were sad to part ways.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="NCAR_and_related_projects">NCAR and related projects</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: NCAR and related projects">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:National_Center_for_Atmospheric_Research_-_Boulder,_Colorado.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The Mesa Laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a series of brown boxlike buildings, stands in front of a mountain." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Center_for_Atmospheric_Research_-_Boulder%2C_Colorado.jpg/220px-National_Center_for_Atmospheric_Research_-_Boulder%2C_Colorado.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Center_for_Atmospheric_Research_-_Boulder%2C_Colorado.jpg/330px-National_Center_for_Atmospheric_Research_-_Boulder%2C_Colorado.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/National_Center_for_Atmospheric_Research_-_Boulder%2C_Colorado.jpg/440px-National_Center_for_Atmospheric_Research_-_Boulder%2C_Colorado.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2406" data-file-height="1913" /></a><figcaption>Pei said he wanted the <a href="/wiki/Mesa_Laboratory" title="Mesa Laboratory">Mesa Laboratory</a> of the <a href="/wiki/National_Center_for_Atmospheric_Research" title="National Center for Atmospheric Research">National Center for Atmospheric Research</a> to look "as if it were carved out of the mountain".<a href="#cite_note-vb60-54">[54]</a></figcaption></figure> Pei was able to return to hands-on design when he was approached in 1961 by <a href="/wiki/Walter_Orr_Roberts" title="Walter Orr Roberts">Walter Orr Roberts</a> to design the new <a href="/wiki/Mesa_Laboratory" title="Mesa Laboratory">Mesa Laboratory</a> for the <a href="/wiki/National_Center_for_Atmospheric_Research" title="National Center for Atmospheric Research">National Center for Atmospheric Research</a> outside <a href="/wiki/Boulder,_Colorado" title="Boulder, Colorado">Boulder</a>, Colorado. The project differed from Pei's earlier urban work because it rested in an open area in the foothills of the <a href="/wiki/Rocky_Mountains" title="Rocky Mountains">Rocky Mountains</a>. He drove around the region with his wife, visiting assorted buildings and surveying the natural environs. He was impressed by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Academy" title="United States Air Force Academy">United States Air Force Academy</a> in Colorado Springs, but felt it was "detached from nature".<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> The conceptualization stages were important for Pei, presenting a need and an opportunity to break from the Bauhaus tradition. He later recalled the long periods of time he spent in the area: "I recalled the places I had seen with my mother when I was a little boy—the mountaintop Buddhist retreats. There in the Colorado mountains, I tried to listen to the silence again—just as my mother had taught me. The investigation of the place became a kind of religious experience for me."<a href="#cite_note-vb60-54">[54]</a> Pei also drew inspiration from the <a href="/wiki/Mesa_Verde_National_Park" title="Mesa Verde National Park">Mesa Verde</a> cliff dwellings of the <a href="/wiki/Ancestral_Puebloans" title="Ancestral Puebloans">Ancestral Puebloans</a>; he wanted the buildings to exist in harmony with their natural surroundings.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> To this end, he called for a rock-treatment process that could color the buildings to match the nearby mountains. He also set the complex back on the mesa overlooking the city, and designed the approaching road to be long, winding, and indirect.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> Roberts disliked Pei's initial designs, referring to them as "just a bunch of towers".<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> Roberts intended his comments as typical of scientific experimentation, rather than artistic critique, but Pei was frustrated. His second attempt, however, fitted Roberts' vision perfectly: a spaced-out series of clustered buildings, joined by lower structures and complemented by two underground levels. The complex used many elements of <a href="/wiki/Cubism" title="Cubism">cubist</a> design, and the walkways were arranged to increase the probability of casual encounters among colleagues.<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Palm_court_1995.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The New College of Florida campus. In front of a dormitory building to the right is a grid of palm trees arranged in a tiled courtyard." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Palm_court_1995.jpg/220px-Palm_court_1995.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Palm_court_1995.jpg/330px-Palm_court_1995.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Palm_court_1995.jpg 2x" data-file-width="369" data-file-height="255" /></a><figcaption>As with NCAR, Pei combined elements of cubism and natural harmony when designing the dormitories at <a href="/wiki/New_College_of_Florida" title="New College of Florida">New College of Florida</a> in the mid-1960s.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a></figcaption></figure> Once the laboratory was built, several problems with its construction became apparent. Leaks in the roof caused difficulties for researchers, and the shifting of clay soil beneath the building caused cracks which were expensive to repair. Still, both architect and project manager were pleased with the final result. Pei referred to the NCAR complex as his "breakout building", and he remained a friend of Roberts until the scientist died in March 1990.<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> The success of NCAR brought renewed attention to Pei's design acumen. He was recruited to work on a variety of projects, including the <a href="/wiki/S._I._Newhouse_School_of_Public_Communications" title="S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications">S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications</a> at <a href="/wiki/Syracuse_University" title="Syracuse University">Syracuse University</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Everson_Museum_of_Art" title="Everson Museum of Art">Everson Museum of Art</a> in <a href="/wiki/Syracuse,_New_York" title="Syracuse, New York">Syracuse, New York</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Sundrome" title="Sundrome">Sundrome</a> terminal at <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_International_Airport" title="John F. Kennedy International Airport">John F. Kennedy International Airport</a> in New York City, and dormitories at <a href="/wiki/New_College_of_Florida" title="New College of Florida">New College of Florida</a>.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kennedy_Library">Kennedy Library</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Kennedy Library">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:JFK_library_Stitch_Crop.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The John F. Kennedy Library, a white triangular tower, rises beside a black glass building, with circular structures on either side." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/JFK_library_Stitch_Crop.jpg/220px-JFK_library_Stitch_Crop.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="112" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/JFK_library_Stitch_Crop.jpg/330px-JFK_library_Stitch_Crop.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/JFK_library_Stitch_Crop.jpg/440px-JFK_library_Stitch_Crop.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3711" data-file-height="1884" /></a><figcaption>Pei considered the <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Presidential_Library_and_Museum" title="John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum">John F. Kennedy Library</a> "the most important commission" in his life.<a href="#cite_note-vb56-63">[63]</a></figcaption></figure> After President <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> was <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_assassination" class="mw-redirect" title="John F. Kennedy assassination">assassinated</a> in November 1963, his family and friends discussed constructing a library that would serve as a fitting memorial. A committee was formed to advise Kennedy's widow <a href="/wiki/Jacqueline_Kennedy_Onassis" title="Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis">Jacqueline</a>, who would make the final decision. The group deliberated for months and considered many famous architects.<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> Eventually, Kennedy chose Pei to design the library, based on two considerations. First, she appreciated the variety of ideas he had used for earlier projects. "He didn't seem to have just one way to solve a problem," she said. "He seemed to approach each commission thinking only of it and then develop a way to make something beautiful."<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> Ultimately, however, Kennedy made her choice based on her personal connection with Pei. Calling it "really an emotional decision", she explained: "He was so full of promise, like Jack; they were born in the same year. I decided it would be fun to take a great leap with him."<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> The project was plagued with problems from the outset. President Kennedy had begun considering the structure of his library soon after taking office, and he wanted to include archives from his administration, a museum of personal items, and a political science institute. After the assassination, the list expanded to include a fitting memorial tribute to the slain president. The variety of necessary inclusions complicated the design process and caused significant delays.<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> Pei's first proposed design included a large glass pyramid that would fill the interior with sunlight, meant to represent the optimism and hope that Kennedy's administration had symbolized for so many in the United States. Mrs. Kennedy liked the design, but resistance began in <a href="/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts" title="Cambridge, Massachusetts">Cambridge</a>, the first proposed site for the building, as soon as the project was announced. Many community members worried that the library would become a tourist attraction, causing particular problems with traffic congestion. Others worried that the design would clash with the architectural feel of nearby <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Square" title="Harvard Square">Harvard Square</a>. By the mid-1970s, Pei tried proposing a new design, but the library's opponents resisted every effort.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> These events pained Pei, who had sent all three of his sons to Harvard, and although he rarely discussed his frustration, it was evident to his wife. "I could tell how tired he was by the way he opened the door at the end of the day," she said. "His footsteps were dragging. It was very hard for I. M. to see that so many people didn't want the building."<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> Finally the project moved to <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Point_(Boston)" class="mw-redirect" title="Columbia Point (Boston)">Columbia Point</a>, near the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_Boston" title="University of Massachusetts Boston">University of Massachusetts Boston</a>. The new site was less than ideal; it was located on an old landfill, and just over a large sewage pipe. Pei's architectural team added more fill to cover the pipe and developed an elaborate ventilation system to conquer the odor. A new design was unveiled, combining a large square glass-enclosed atrium with a triangular tower and a circular walkway.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> The <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="John F. Kennedy Library">John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum</a> was dedicated on October 20, 1979.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> Critics generally liked the finished building, but the architect himself was unsatisfied. The years of conflict and compromise had changed the nature of the design, and Pei felt that the final result lacked its original passion. "I wanted to give something very special to the memory of President Kennedy," he said in 2000. "It could and should have been a great project."<a href="#cite_note-vb56-63">[63]</a> Pei's work on the Kennedy project boosted his reputation as an architect of note.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id=""Pei_Plan"_in_Oklahoma_City">"Pei Plan" in Oklahoma City</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: "Pei Plan" in Oklahoma City">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Pei_Plan" title="Pei Plan">Pei Plan</a></div> The Pei Plan was a failed urban redevelopment initiative designed for downtown <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City" title="Oklahoma City">Oklahoma City</a>, Oklahoma, in 1964. The plan called for the demolition of hundreds of old downtown structures in favor of renewed parking, office building, and retail developments, in addition to public projects such as the Myriad Convention Center and the Myriad Botanical Gardens. It was the dominant template for downtown development in Oklahoma City from its inception through the 1970s. The plan generated mixed results and opinion, largely succeeding in re-developing office building and parking infrastructure but failing to attract its anticipated retail and residential development. Significant public resentment also developed as a result of the destruction of multiple historic structures. As a result, Oklahoma City's leadership avoided large-scale urban planning for downtown throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, until the passage of the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Area_Projects_Plan" title="Metropolitan Area Projects Plan">Metropolitan Area Projects</a> (MAPS) initiative in 1993.<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a><a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Providence's_Cathedral_Square">Providence's Cathedral Square</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Providence's Cathedral Square">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cathedral_Square,_Providence_Rhode_Island_in_winter.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A view of Providence's Cathedral Square on a sunny winter day. At left is a grove of trees without leaves." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Cathedral_Square%2C_Providence_Rhode_Island_in_winter.jpg/220px-Cathedral_Square%2C_Providence_Rhode_Island_in_winter.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Cathedral_Square%2C_Providence_Rhode_Island_in_winter.jpg/330px-Cathedral_Square%2C_Providence_Rhode_Island_in_winter.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Cathedral_Square%2C_Providence_Rhode_Island_in_winter.jpg/440px-Cathedral_Square%2C_Providence_Rhode_Island_in_winter.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="1688" /></a><figcaption>Providence's Cathedral Square, modeled after the Greek Agora marketplace</figcaption></figure> Another city which turned to Pei for urban renewal during this time was <a href="/wiki/Providence,_Rhode_Island" title="Providence, Rhode Island">Providence, Rhode Island</a>.<a href="#cite_note-RIPR-Pei-75">[75]</a> In the late 1960s, Providence hired Pei to redesign <a href="/wiki/Cathedral_of_Saints_Peter_and_Paul_(Providence,_Rhode_Island)#Cathedral_Square" title="Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul (Providence, Rhode Island)">Cathedral Square</a>, a once-bustling civic center which had become neglected and empty, as part of an ambitious larger plan to redesign downtown.<a href="#cite_note-RIPR-Pei-75">[75]</a> Pei's new plaza, modeled after the Greek <a href="/wiki/Agora" title="Agora">Agora</a> marketplace, opened in 1972.<a href="#cite_note-RIPR-Pei-75">[75]</a> The city ran out of money before Pei's vision could be fully realized.<a href="#cite_note-RIPR-Pei-75">[75]</a> Also, recent construction of a low-income housing complex and <a href="/wiki/Interstate_95_in_Rhode_Island" title="Interstate 95 in Rhode Island">Interstate 95</a> had changed the neighborhood's character permanently.<a href="#cite_note-RIPR-Pei-75">[75]</a> In 1974, <a href="/wiki/The_Providence_Journal" title="The Providence Journal">The Providence Evening Bulletin</a> called Pei's new plaza a "conspicuous failure".<a href="#cite_note-RIPR-Pei-75">[75]</a> By 2016, media reports characterized the plaza as a neglected, little-visited "hidden gem".<a href="#cite_note-RIPR-Pei-75">[75]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Augusta,_Georgia">Augusta, Georgia</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Augusta, Georgia">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Augustagaskyline.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The Lamar Building, a skyscraper with a pyramidal penthouse, as seen from a distance, with buildings on either side." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Augustagaskyline.jpg/220px-Augustagaskyline.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Augustagaskyline.jpg/330px-Augustagaskyline.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Augustagaskyline.jpg 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="270" /></a><figcaption>The distinctive modern pyramid shaped penthouse, designed by Pei, that was added to the top of the historic <a href="/wiki/Lamar_Building" title="Lamar Building">Lamar Building</a> in 1976</figcaption></figure> In 1974, the city of <a href="/wiki/Augusta,_Georgia" title="Augusta, Georgia">Augusta, Georgia</a> turned to Pei and his firm for downtown revitalization.<a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a> The Chamber of Commerce building and Bicentennial Park were completed from his plan.<a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a> In 1976, Pei designed a distinctive modern penthouse that was added to the roof of architect <a href="/wiki/William_Lee_Stoddart" title="William Lee Stoddart">William Lee Stoddart</a>'s historic <a href="/wiki/Lamar_Building" title="Lamar Building">Lamar Building</a>, designed in 1916.<a href="#cite_note-r821-78">[78]</a> In 1980, Pei and his company designed the Augusta Civic Center, now known as the <a href="/wiki/James_Brown_Arena" title="James Brown Arena">James Brown Arena</a>.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dallas_City_Hall">Dallas City Hall</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Dallas City Hall">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:DallasCityHallB.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Dallas City Hall, a tall beige building with an angled front facade. The facade leans outward from the top, supported by three pillars, and is covered with rows of windows." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/DallasCityHallB.jpg/220px-DallasCityHallB.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/DallasCityHallB.jpg/330px-DallasCityHallB.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/DallasCityHallB.jpg/440px-DallasCityHallB.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="1584" /></a><figcaption>Pei wanted his design for <a href="/wiki/Dallas_City_Hall" title="Dallas City Hall">Dallas City Hall</a> to "convey an image of the people".<a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a></figcaption></figure> Kennedy's assassination also led indirectly to another commission for Pei's firm. In 1964 the acting mayor of Dallas, <a href="/wiki/J._Erik_Jonsson" title="J. Erik Jonsson">Erik Jonsson</a>, began working to change the community's image. Dallas was known and disliked as the city where the president had been killed, but Jonsson began a program designed to initiate a community renewal. One of the goals was a new city hall, which could be a "symbol of the people".<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> Jonsson, a co-founder of <a href="/wiki/Texas_Instruments" title="Texas Instruments">Texas Instruments</a>, learned about Pei from his associate <a href="/wiki/Cecil_Howard_Green" title="Cecil Howard Green">Cecil Howard Green</a>, who had recruited the architect for MIT's <a href="/wiki/Green_Building_(MIT)" title="Green Building (MIT)">Earth Sciences building</a>.<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> Pei's approach to the new <a href="/wiki/Dallas_City_Hall" title="Dallas City Hall">Dallas City Hall</a> mirrored those of other projects; he surveyed the surrounding area and worked to make the building fit. In the case of Dallas, he spent days meeting with residents of the city and was impressed by their civic pride. He also found that the skyscrapers of the downtown business district dominated the skyline, and sought to create a building which could face the tall buildings and represent the importance of the public sector. He spoke of creating "a public-private dialogue with the commercial high-rises".<a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a> Working with his associate Theodore Musho, Pei developed a design centered on a building with a top much wider than the bottom; the facade leans at an angle of 34 degrees, which shades the building from the Texas sun. A plaza stretches out before the building, and a series of support columns holds it up. It was influenced by Le Corbusier's <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Chandigarh" class="mw-redirect" title="Government of Chandigarh">High Court building in Chandigarh</a>, India; Pei sought to use the significant overhang to unify the building and plaza. The project cost much more than initially expected, and took 11 years to complete. Revenue was secured in part by including a subterranean parking garage. The interior of the city hall is large and spacious; windows in the ceiling above the eighth floor fill the main space with light.<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> The city of Dallas received the building well, and a local television news crew found unanimous approval of the new city hall when it officially opened to the public in 1978. Pei himself considered the project a success, even as he worried about the arrangement of its elements. He said: "It's perhaps stronger than I would have liked; it's got more strength than finesse."<a href="#cite_note-w136-85">[85]</a> He felt that his relative lack of experience left him without the necessary design tools to refine his vision, but the community liked the city hall enough to invite him back. Over the years he went on to design five additional buildings in the Dallas area.<a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hancock_Tower,_Boston">Hancock Tower, Boston</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Hancock Tower, Boston">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Plylwood_palace.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Two dark buildings rise into the early evening sky. The tower on the right, the Hancock Tower, has plywood on its side." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Plylwood_palace.jpg/220px-Plylwood_palace.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Plylwood_palace.jpg/330px-Plylwood_palace.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Plylwood_palace.jpg/440px-Plylwood_palace.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2894" data-file-height="1937" /></a><figcaption>The disastrous failure of windows on the <a href="/wiki/200_Clarendon_Street" class="mw-redirect" title="200 Clarendon Street">Hancock Tower</a> required replacing them with plywood; some called it "the world's tallest wood building".<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a></figcaption></figure> While Pei and Musho were coordinating the Dallas project, their associate <a href="/wiki/Henry_N._Cobb" title="Henry N. Cobb">Henry Cobb</a> had taken the helm for a commission in Boston. <a href="/wiki/John_Hancock_Insurance" class="mw-redirect" title="John Hancock Insurance">John Hancock Insurance</a> chairman Robert Slater hired I. M. Pei & Partners to design a building that could overshadow the <a href="/wiki/Prudential_Tower" title="Prudential Tower">Prudential Tower</a>, erected by <a href="/wiki/Prudential_Insurance" class="mw-redirect" title="Prudential Insurance">their rival</a>.<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a> After the firm's first plan was discarded due to a need for more office space, Cobb developed a new plan around a towering parallelogram, slanted away from the <a href="/wiki/Trinity_Church_(Boston)" title="Trinity Church (Boston)">Trinity Church</a> and accented by a wedge cut into each narrow side. To minimize the visual impact, the building was covered in large reflective glass panels; Cobb said this would make the building a "background and foil" to the older structures around it.<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> When the <a href="/wiki/200_Clarendon_Street" class="mw-redirect" title="200 Clarendon Street">Hancock Tower</a> was finished in 1976, it was the tallest building in <a href="/wiki/New_England" title="New England">New England</a>.<a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Johnson-museum-of-art-cornell.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, a concrete structure with narrow sides supporting a floor on top." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Johnson-museum-of-art-cornell.JPG/220px-Johnson-museum-of-art-cornell.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="182" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Johnson-museum-of-art-cornell.JPG/330px-Johnson-museum-of-art-cornell.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Johnson-museum-of-art-cornell.JPG/440px-Johnson-museum-of-art-cornell.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3544" data-file-height="2924" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Herbert_F._Johnson_Museum_of_Art" title="Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art">Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art</a>, Cornell University</figcaption></figure> Serious issues of execution became evident in the tower almost immediately. Many glass panels fractured in a windstorm during construction in 1973. Some detached and fell to the ground, causing no injuries but sparking concern among Boston residents. The entire tower was reglazed with smaller panels, significantly increasing costs. Hancock sued the glass manufacturers, Libbey-Owens-Ford, as well as I. M. Pei & Partners, for submitting plans that were "not good and workmanlike".<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> LOF countersued Hancock for defamation, accusing Pei's firm of poor use of their materials; I. M. Pei & Partners sued LOF in return. All three companies settled out of court in 1981.<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> The project became an <a href="/wiki/Albatross_(metaphor)" title="Albatross (metaphor)">albatross</a> for Pei's firm. Pei himself refused to discuss it for many years. The pace of new commissions slowed and the firm's architects began looking overseas for opportunities. Cobb worked in Australia and Pei took on jobs in Singapore, <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kuwait" title="Kuwait">Kuwait</a>. Although it was a difficult time for everyone involved, Pei later reflected with patience on the experience. "Going through this trial toughened us," he said. "It helped to cement us as partners; we did not give up on each other."<a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="National_Gallery_East_Building,_Washington,_DC..">National Gallery East Building, Washington, DC..</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: National Gallery East Building, Washington, DC..">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:National_Gallery_East_Wing_by_Matthew_Bisanz.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The exterior of the National Gallery East Building, a large gray building, rises above a stone plaza. Short square towers appear on either side of the building, and an array of irregular glass pyramids are in the middle of the plaza." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/National_Gallery_East_Wing_by_Matthew_Bisanz.JPG/220px-National_Gallery_East_Wing_by_Matthew_Bisanz.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/National_Gallery_East_Wing_by_Matthew_Bisanz.JPG/330px-National_Gallery_East_Wing_by_Matthew_Bisanz.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/National_Gallery_East_Wing_by_Matthew_Bisanz.JPG/440px-National_Gallery_East_Wing_by_Matthew_Bisanz.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3458" data-file-height="2751" /></a><figcaption>Time magazine headlined its review of Pei's design for the East Building "Masterpiece on the Mall".<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a></figcaption></figure> In the mid-1960s, directors of the <a href="/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art" title="National Gallery of Art">National Gallery of Art</a> in Washington, D.C., declared the need for a new building. <a href="/wiki/Paul_Mellon" title="Paul Mellon">Paul Mellon</a>, a primary benefactor of the gallery and a member of its building committee, set to work with his assistant <a href="/wiki/J._Carter_Brown" title="J. Carter Brown">J. Carter Brown</a> (who became gallery director in 1969) to find an architect. The new structure would be located to the east of the original building, and tasked with two functions: offer a large space for public appreciation of various popular collections; and house office space as well as archives for scholarship and research. They likened the scope of the new facility to the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria" title="Library of Alexandria">Library of Alexandria</a>. After inspecting Pei's work at the <a href="/wiki/Des_Moines_Art_Center" title="Des Moines Art Center">Des Moines Art Center</a> in Iowa and the <a href="/wiki/Herbert_F._Johnson_Museum_of_Art" title="Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art">Johnson Museum</a> at <a href="/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a>, they offered him the commission.<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> Pei took to the project with vigor, and set to work with two young architects he had recently recruited to the firm, <a href="/wiki/William_Pedersen_(architect)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Pedersen (architect)">William Pedersen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yann_Weymouth" title="Yann Weymouth">Yann Weymouth</a>. Their first obstacle was the unusual shape of the building site, a <a href="/wiki/Trapezoid" title="Trapezoid">trapezoid</a> of land at the intersection of <a href="/wiki/Constitution_Avenue" title="Constitution Avenue">Constitution</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_Avenue_(Washington,_D.C.)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.)">Pennsylvania Avenues</a>. Inspiration struck Pei in 1968, when he scrawled a rough diagram of two triangles on a scrap of paper. The larger building would be the public gallery; the smaller would house offices and archives. This triangular shape became a singular vision for the architect. As the date for groundbreaking approached, Pedersen suggested to his boss that a slightly different approach would make construction easier. Pei simply smiled and said: "No compromises."<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> The growing popularity of art museums presented unique challenges to the architecture. Mellon and Pei both expected large crowds of people to visit the new building, and they planned accordingly. To this end, Pei designed a large lobby roofed with enormous skylights. Individual galleries are located along the periphery, allowing visitors to return after viewing each exhibit to the spacious main room. A large <a href="/wiki/Mobile_(sculpture)" title="Mobile (sculpture)">mobile sculpture</a> by American artist <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Calder" title="Alexander Calder">Alexander Calder</a> was later added to the lobby.<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> Pei hoped the lobby would be exciting to the public in the same way as the central room of the <a href="/wiki/Solomon_R._Guggenheim_Museum" title="Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum">Guggenheim Museum</a> is in New York City. The modern museum, he said later, "must pay greater attention to its educational responsibility, especially to the young".<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nga_fg04.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The interior of the National Gallery East Building. A large open cement room contains several people on the ground far below a balcony. Several trees are planted in the concrete floor, and an array of clear windows let in sunshine from above." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Nga_fg04.jpg/220px-Nga_fg04.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Nga_fg04.jpg/330px-Nga_fg04.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Nga_fg04.jpg/440px-Nga_fg04.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="727" /></a><figcaption>Critic Richard Hennessy complained in <a href="/wiki/Artforum" title="Artforum">Artforum</a> about the East Building's "shocking fun-house atmosphere".<a href="#cite_note-w182-99">[99]</a></figcaption></figure> Materials for the building's exterior were chosen with careful precision. To match the look and texture of the original gallery's marble walls, builders re-opened the quarry in <a href="/wiki/Knoxville,_Tennessee" title="Knoxville, Tennessee">Knoxville</a>, Tennessee, from which the first batch of stone had been harvested. The project even found and hired Malcolm Rice, a quarry supervisor who had overseen the original 1941 gallery project. The marble was cut into three-inch-thick blocks and arranged over the concrete foundation, with darker blocks at the bottom and lighter blocks on top.<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a> The East Building was honored on May 30, 1978, two days before its public unveiling, with a black-tie party attended by celebrities, politicians, benefactors, and artists. When the building opened, popular opinion was enthusiastic. Large crowds visited the new museum, and critics generally voiced their approval. <a href="/wiki/Ada_Louise_Huxtable" title="Ada Louise Huxtable">Ada Louise Huxtable</a> wrote in <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> that Pei's building was "a palatial statement of the creative accommodation of contemporary art and architecture".<a href="#cite_note-w182-99">[99]</a> The sharp angle of the smaller building has been a particular note of praise for the public; over the years it has become stained and worn from the hands of visitors.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a> Some critics disliked the unusual design, however, and criticized the reliance on triangles throughout the building. Others took issue with the large main lobby, particularly its attempt to lure casual visitors. In his review for <a href="/wiki/Artforum" title="Artforum">Artforum</a>, critic Richard Hennessy described a "shocking fun-house atmosphere" and "aura of ancient Roman patronage".<a href="#cite_note-w182-99">[99]</a> One of the earliest and most vocal critics, however, came to appreciate the new gallery once he saw it in person. <a href="/wiki/Allan_Greenberg" title="Allan Greenberg">Allan Greenberg</a> had scorned the design when it was first unveiled, but wrote later to <a href="/wiki/J._Carter_Brown" title="J. Carter Brown">J. Carter Brown</a>: "I am forced to admit that you are right and I was wrong! The building is a masterpiece."<a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fragrant_Hills,_China">Fragrant Hills, China</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Fragrant Hills, China">edit</a>]</div> After U.S. President <a href="/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> made his famous <a href="/wiki/1972_Nixon_visit_to_China" class="mw-redirect" title="1972 Nixon visit to China">1972 visit to China</a>, a wave of exchanges took place between the two countries. One of these was a delegation of the <a href="/wiki/American_Institute_of_Architects" title="American Institute of Architects">American Institute of Architects</a> in 1974, which Pei joined. It was his first trip back to China since leaving in 1935. He was favorably received, returned the welcome with positive comments, and a series of lectures ensued. Pei noted in one lecture that since the 1950s Chinese architects had been content to imitate Western styles; he urged his audience in one lecture to search China's native traditions for inspiration.<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fragrant_Hill_Hotel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The Fragrant Hill Hotel, a white building with ornamented windows, faces a lake ringed with rock structures. Trees appear around the structure." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Fragrant_Hill_Hotel.jpg/220px-Fragrant_Hill_Hotel.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Fragrant_Hill_Hotel.jpg/330px-Fragrant_Hill_Hotel.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Fragrant_Hill_Hotel.jpg/440px-Fragrant_Hill_Hotel.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2200" data-file-height="1650" /></a><figcaption>Pei was surprised by public resistance to his traditional design of the hotel at <a href="/wiki/Fragrant_Hills" title="Fragrant Hills">Fragrant Hills</a> in China. "Many people thought I was being reactionary," he said.<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a></figcaption></figure> In 1978, Pei was asked to initiate a project for his home country. After surveying a number of different locations, Pei fell in love with a valley that had once served as an imperial garden and hunting preserve known as <a href="/wiki/Fragrant_Hills" title="Fragrant Hills">Fragrant Hills</a>. The site housed a decrepit hotel; Pei was invited to tear it down and build a new one. As usual, he approached the project by carefully considering the context and purpose. Likewise, he considered modernist styles inappropriate for the setting. Thus, he said, it was necessary to find "a third way".<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> After visiting his ancestral home in Suzhou, Pei created a design based on some simple but nuanced techniques he admired in traditional residential Chinese buildings. Among these were abundant gardens, integration with nature, and consideration of the relationship between enclosure and opening. Pei's design included a large central atrium covered by glass panels that functioned much like the large central space in his East Building of the National Gallery. Openings of various shapes in walls invited guests to view the natural scenery beyond. Younger Chinese who had hoped the building would exhibit some of Cubist flavor for which Pei had become known were disappointed, but the new hotel found more favor with government officials and architects.<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a> The hotel, with 325 guest rooms and a four-story central atrium, was designed to fit perfectly into its natural habitat. The trees in the area were of special concern, and particular care was taken to cut down as few as possible. He worked with an expert from Suzhou to preserve and renovate a water maze from the original hotel, one of only five in the country. Pei was also meticulous about the arrangement of items in the garden behind the hotel; he even insisted on transporting 230 short tons (210 t) of rocks from a location in southwest China to suit the natural aesthetic. An associate of Pei's said later that he never saw the architect so involved in a project.<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a> During construction, a series of mistakes collided with the nation's lack of technology to strain relations between architects and builders. Whereas 200 or so workers might have been used for a similar building in the US, the Fragrant Hill project employed over 3,000 workers. This was mostly because the construction company lacked the sophisticated machines used elsewhere. The problems continued for months, until Pei had an uncharacteristically emotional moment during a meeting with Chinese officials. He later explained that his actions included "shouting and pounding the table" in frustration.<a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a> The design staff noticed a difference in the manner of work among the crew after the meeting. As the opening neared, however, Pei found the hotel still needed work. He began scrubbing floors with his wife and ordered his children to make beds and vacuum floors. The project's difficulties took an emotional and physical strain on the Pei family.<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> The Fragrant Hill Hotel opened on October 17, 1982, but quickly fell into disrepair. A member of Pei's staff returned for a visit several years later and confirmed the dilapidated condition of the hotel. He and Pei attributed this to the country's general unfamiliarity with deluxe buildings.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a> The Chinese architectural community at the time gave the structure little attention, as their interest at the time centered on the work of American <a href="/wiki/Postmodern_architecture" title="Postmodern architecture">postmodernists</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Michael_Graves" title="Michael Graves">Michael Graves</a>.<a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Javits_Center,_New_York">Javits Center, New York</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Javits Center, New York">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Javits_Center" title="Javits Center">Javits Center</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Javits_Center_11av_jeh.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The Javits Center, a building of dark tinted glass, stands over a city street. The corners of the building are smoothed at 45-degree angles." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Javits_Center_11av_jeh.JPG/220px-Javits_Center_11av_jeh.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Javits_Center_11av_jeh.JPG/330px-Javits_Center_11av_jeh.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Javits_Center_11av_jeh.JPG/440px-Javits_Center_11av_jeh.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2905" data-file-height="2184" /></a><figcaption>Pei said of the <a href="/wiki/Javits_Center" title="Javits Center">Javits Center</a>: "The complications exceeded even my expectations."<a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a></figcaption></figure> As the Fragrant Hill project neared completion, Pei began work on the <a href="/wiki/Javits_Center" title="Javits Center">Javits Center</a> in New York City, for which his associate <a href="/wiki/James_Ingo_Freed" title="James Ingo Freed">James Freed</a> served as lead designer. Hoping to create a vibrant community institution in what was then a run-down neighborhood on Manhattan's west side, Freed developed a glass-coated structure with an intricate <a href="/wiki/Space_frame" title="Space frame">space frame</a> of interconnected metal rods and spheres.<a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a> The convention center was plagued from the start by budget problems and construction blunders. City regulations forbid a general contractor having final authority over the project, so architects and program manager Richard Kahan had to coordinate the wide array of builders, plumbers, electricians, and other workers. The forged steel globes to be used in the space frame came to the site with hairline cracks and other defects: 12,000 were rejected. These and other problems led to media comparisons with the disastrous Hancock Tower. One New York City official blamed Kahan for the difficulties, indicating that the building's architectural flourishes were responsible for delays and financial crises.<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a> The Javits Center opened on April 3, 1986, to a generally positive reception.<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Grand_Louvre,_Paris">Grand Louvre, Paris</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Grand Louvre, Paris">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Grand_Louvre" title="Grand Louvre">Grand Louvre</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Paris_75001_Cour_Napol%C3%A9on_Louvre_Aile_Turgot_02a.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The Louvre museum, a classical building with ornamentation on its facade, rises above a small crowd. Rounded archways line the front of the structure." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Paris_75001_Cour_Napol%C3%A9on_Louvre_Aile_Turgot_02a.jpg/220px-Paris_75001_Cour_Napol%C3%A9on_Louvre_Aile_Turgot_02a.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Paris_75001_Cour_Napol%C3%A9on_Louvre_Aile_Turgot_02a.jpg/330px-Paris_75001_Cour_Napol%C3%A9on_Louvre_Aile_Turgot_02a.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Paris_75001_Cour_Napol%C3%A9on_Louvre_Aile_Turgot_02a.jpg/440px-Paris_75001_Cour_Napol%C3%A9on_Louvre_Aile_Turgot_02a.jpg 2x" data-file-width="922" data-file-height="692" /></a><figcaption>Pei was acutely aware, as he said, that "the history of Paris was embedded in the stones of the Louvre."<a href="#cite_note-Boehm,_p._84-116">[116]</a></figcaption></figure> When <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mitterrand" title="François Mitterrand">François Mitterrand</a> was elected President of France in 1981, he laid out an ambitious plan for a variety of construction projects. One of these was the renovation of the <a href="/wiki/Louvre" title="Louvre">Louvre</a>. Mitterrand appointed a civil servant named <a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%89mile_Biasini&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Émile Biasini (page does not exist)">Émile Biasini</a> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Biasini" class="extiw" title="fr:Émile Biasini">fr</a>] to oversee it. After visiting museums in Europe and the United States, including the U.S. National Gallery, he asked Pei to join the team. The architect made three secretive trips to Paris, to determine the feasibility of the project; only one museum employee knew why he was there.<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a> Pei finally agreed that a new construction project was not only possible, but necessary for the future of the museum. He thus became the first foreign architect to work on the Louvre.<a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a> The heart of the new design included not only a renovation of the <a href="/wiki/Cour_Napol%C3%A9on" class="mw-redirect" title="Cour Napoléon">Cour Napoléon</a> in the midst of the buildings, but also a transformation of the interiors. Pei proposed a central entrance, not unlike the lobby of the National Gallery East Building, which would link the three major wings around the central space. Below would be a complex of additional floors for research, storage, and maintenance purposes. At the center of the courtyard he designed a <a href="/wiki/Louvre_Pyramid" title="Louvre Pyramid">glass and steel pyramid</a>, first proposed with the Kennedy Library, to serve as entrance and anteroom skylight. It was mirrored by an <a href="/wiki/Pyramide_Invers%C3%A9e" class="mw-redirect" title="Pyramide Inversée">inverted pyramid</a> to the west, to reflect sunlight into the complex. These designs were partly an homage to the fastidious geometry of the French landscape architect <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Le_N%C3%B4tre" title="André Le Nôtre">André Le Nôtre</a>.<a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a> Pei also found the pyramid shape best suited for stable transparency, and considered it "most compatible with the architecture of the Louvre, especially with the faceted planes of its roofs".<a href="#cite_note-Boehm,_p._84-116">[116]</a> Biasini and Mitterrand liked the plans, but the scope of the renovation displeased Louvre administrator André Chabaud. He resigned from his post, complaining that the project was "unfeasible" and posed "architectural risks".<a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a> Some sections of the French public also reacted harshly to the design, mostly because of the proposed pyramid.<a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a> One critic called it a "gigantic, ruinous gadget";<a href="#cite_note-w249-122">[122]</a> another charged Mitterrand with "despotism" for inflicting Paris with the "atrocity".<a href="#cite_note-w249-122">[122]</a> Pei estimated that 90 percent of Parisians opposed his design. "I received many angry glances in the streets of Paris," he said.<a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a> Some condemnations carried <a href="/wiki/Nationalism" title="Nationalism">nationalistic</a> overtones. One opponent wrote: "I am surprised that one would go looking for a Chinese architect in America to deal with the historic heart of the capital of France."<a href="#cite_note-124">[124]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Louvre_Museum_Wikimedia_Commons.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The Louvre pyramid, a gray structure, sits in the center of a courtyard, surrounded by ancient buildings." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Louvre_Museum_Wikimedia_Commons.jpg/220px-Louvre_Museum_Wikimedia_Commons.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="92" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Louvre_Museum_Wikimedia_Commons.jpg/330px-Louvre_Museum_Wikimedia_Commons.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Louvre_Museum_Wikimedia_Commons.jpg/440px-Louvre_Museum_Wikimedia_Commons.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6740" data-file-height="2832" /></a><figcaption>Pei decided that a pyramid was "most compatible" with the other structures at the Louvre, complementing their roofs' faceted planes.<a href="#cite_note-Boehm,_p._84-116">[116]</a></figcaption></figure> Soon, however, Pei and his team won the support of several key cultural icons, including the conductor <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Boulez" title="Pierre Boulez">Pierre Boulez</a> and <a href="/wiki/Claude_Pompidou" title="Claude Pompidou">Claude Pompidou</a>, widow of former French President <a href="/wiki/Georges_Pompidou" title="Georges Pompidou">Georges Pompidou</a>, after whom the similarly controversial <a href="/wiki/Centre_Georges_Pompidou" class="mw-redirect" title="Centre Georges Pompidou">Centre Georges Pompidou</a> was named. In an attempt to soothe public ire, Pei took a suggestion from then-mayor of Paris <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Chirac" title="Jacques Chirac">Jacques Chirac</a> and placed a full-sized cable model of the pyramid in the courtyard. During the four days of its exhibition, an estimated 60,000 people visited the site. Some critics eased their opposition after witnessing the proposed scale of the pyramid.<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a> Pei demanded a method of glass production that resulted in clear panes. The pyramid was constructed at the same time as the subterranean levels below, which caused difficulties during the building stages. As they worked, construction teams came upon an abandoned set of rooms containing 25,000 historical items; these were incorporated into the rest of the structure to add a new exhibition zone.<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a> The new <a href="/wiki/Cour_Napol%C3%A9on" class="mw-redirect" title="Cour Napoléon">Cour Napoléon</a> was opened to the public on October 14, 1988, and the Pyramid entrance was opened the following March. By this time, public opposition had softened; a poll found a 56 percent approval rating for the pyramid, with 23 percent still opposed. The newspaper <a href="/wiki/Le_Figaro" title="Le Figaro">Le Figaro</a> had vehemently criticized Pei's design, but later celebrated the tenth anniversary of its magazine supplement at the pyramid.<a href="#cite_note-w255-127">[127]</a> <a href="/wiki/Charles_III_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles III of the United Kingdom">Prince Charles</a> of Britain surveyed the new site with curiosity, and declared it "marvelous, very exciting".<a href="#cite_note-w259-128">[128]</a> A writer in <a href="/wiki/Le_Quotidien_de_Paris" title="Le Quotidien de Paris">Le Quotidien de Paris</a> wrote: "The much-feared pyramid has become adorable."<a href="#cite_note-w259-128">[128]</a> The experience was exhausting for Pei, but also rewarding. "After the Louvre," he said later, "I thought no project would be too difficult."<a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a> The pyramid achieved further widespread international recognition for its central role in the plot at the denouement of <a href="/wiki/The_Da_Vinci_Code" title="The Da Vinci Code">The Da Vinci Code</a> by <a href="/wiki/Dan_Brown" title="Dan Brown">Dan Brown</a> and its appearance in the final scene of the subsequent <a href="/wiki/The_Da_Vinci_Code_(film)" title="The Da Vinci Code (film)">screen adaptation</a>.<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Louvre_Pyramid" title="Louvre Pyramid">Louvre Pyramid</a> became Pei's most famous structure.<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Meyerson_Symphony_Center,_Dallas">Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas">edit</a>]</div> The opening of the Louvre Pyramid coincided with four other projects on which Pei had been working, prompting architecture critic <a href="/wiki/Paul_Goldberger" title="Paul Goldberger">Paul Goldberger</a> to declare 1989 "the year of Pei" in The New York Times.<a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a> It was also the year in which Pei's firm changed its name to <a href="/wiki/Pei_Cobb_Freed_%26_Partners" title="Pei Cobb Freed & Partners">Pei Cobb Freed & Partners</a>, to reflect the increasing stature and prominence of his associates. At the age of 72, Pei had begun thinking about retirement, but continued working long hours to see his designs come to light.<a href="#cite_note-133">[133]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dallas_Meyerson_Center_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, a beige cube rising at an angle around a half-cone made of glass and steel. In front, a square archway overlooks a stone courtyard." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Dallas_Meyerson_Center_02.jpg/220px-Dallas_Meyerson_Center_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Dallas_Meyerson_Center_02.jpg/330px-Dallas_Meyerson_Center_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Dallas_Meyerson_Center_02.jpg/440px-Dallas_Meyerson_Center_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3054" data-file-height="2356" /></a><figcaption>Although he usually designed entirely by hand, Pei used a computer to "confirm the spaces" for the <a href="/wiki/Morton_H._Meyerson_Symphony_Center" title="Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center">Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center</a> in <a href="/wiki/Dallas" title="Dallas">Dallas</a>.<a href="#cite_note-134">[134]</a></figcaption></figure> One of the projects took Pei back to Dallas, Texas, to design the <a href="/wiki/Morton_H._Meyerson_Symphony_Center" title="Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center">Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center</a>. The success of city's performing artists, particularly the <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Symphony_Orchestra" title="Dallas Symphony Orchestra">Dallas Symphony Orchestra</a> then led by conductor <a href="/wiki/Eduardo_Mata" title="Eduardo Mata">Eduardo Mata</a>, led to interest by city leaders in creating a modern center for musical arts that could rival the best halls in Europe. The organizing committee contacted 45 architects, but at first Pei did not respond, thinking that his work on the Dallas City Hall had left a negative impression. One of his colleagues from that project, however, insisted that he meet with the committee. He did and, although it would be his first concert hall, the committee voted unanimously to offer him the commission. As one member put it: "We were convinced that we would get the world's greatest architect putting his best foot forward."<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a> Because its main purpose was the presentation of live music, the hall needed a design focused on <a href="/wiki/Acoustics" title="Acoustics">acoustics</a> first, then public access and exterior aesthetics. To this end, a professional sound technician was hired to design the interior. He proposed a <a href="/wiki/Shoebox_style_(architecture)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shoebox style (architecture)">shoebox</a> auditorium, used in the acclaimed designs of top European symphony halls such as the <a href="/wiki/Concertgebouw,_Amsterdam" title="Concertgebouw, Amsterdam">Amsterdam Concertgebouw</a> and <a href="/wiki/Musikverein" title="Musikverein">Vienna Musikverein</a>. Pei drew inspiration for his adjustments from the designs of the German architect <a href="/wiki/Johann_Balthasar_Neumann" class="mw-redirect" title="Johann Balthasar Neumann">Johann Balthasar Neumann</a>, especially the <a href="/wiki/Basilica_of_the_Fourteen_Holy_Helpers" title="Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers">Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers</a>. He also sought to incorporate some of the panache of the <a href="/wiki/Palais_Garnier" title="Palais Garnier">Paris Opéra</a> designed by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Garnier_(architect)" title="Charles Garnier (architect)">Charles Garnier</a>.<a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a> Pei's design placed the rigid shoebox at an angle to the surrounding street grid, connected at the north end to a long rectangular office building, and cut through the middle with an assortment of circles and cones. The design attempted to reproduce with modern features the acoustic and visual functions of traditional elements like <a href="/wiki/Filigree" title="Filigree">filigree</a>. The project was risky: its goals were ambitious and any unforeseen acoustic flaws would be virtually impossible to remedy after the hall's completion. Pei admitted that he did not completely know how everything would come together. "I can imagine only 60 percent of the space in this building," he said during the early stages. "The rest will be as surprising to me as to everyone else."<a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a> As the project developed, costs rose steadily and some sponsors considered withdrawing their support. Billionaire tycoon <a href="/wiki/Ross_Perot" title="Ross Perot">Ross Perot</a> made a donation of US$10 million, on the condition that it be named in honor of Morton H. Meyerson, the longtime patron of the arts in Dallas.<a href="#cite_note-138">[138]</a> The building opened and immediately garnered widespread praise, especially for its acoustics. After attending a week of performances in the hall, a music critic for The New York Times wrote an enthusiastic account of the experience and congratulated the architects. One of Pei's associates told him during a party before the opening that the symphony hall was "a very mature building"; he smiled and replied: "Ah, but did I have to wait this long?"<a href="#cite_note-139">[139]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bank_of_China,_Hong_Kong">Bank of China, Hong Kong</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Bank of China, Hong Kong">edit</a>]</div> A new offer had arrived for Pei from the Chinese government in 1982. With an eye toward the <a href="/wiki/Handover_of_Hong_Kong" title="Handover of Hong Kong">handover of Hong Kong</a> from the British in 1997, authorities in China sought Pei's aid on a new tower for the local branch of the <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_China" title="Bank of China">Bank of China</a>. The Chinese government was preparing for a new wave of engagement with the outside world and sought a tower to represent modernity and economic strength. Given the elder Pei's history with the bank before the Communist takeover, government officials visited the 89-year-old man in New York to gain approval for his son's involvement. Pei then spoke with his father at length about the proposal. Although the architect remained pained by his experience with Fragrant Hills, he agreed to accept the commission.<a href="#cite_note-140">[140]</a> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HK_Bank_of_China_Tower_2008_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The Bank of China Tower, a skyscraper with triangular shapes on a glass facade." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/HK_Bank_of_China_Tower_2008_%282%29.jpg/180px-HK_Bank_of_China_Tower_2008_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="319" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/HK_Bank_of_China_Tower_2008_%282%29.jpg/270px-HK_Bank_of_China_Tower_2008_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/HK_Bank_of_China_Tower_2008_%282%29.jpg/360px-HK_Bank_of_China_Tower_2008_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="738" data-file-height="1308" /></a><figcaption>The trunk of the Bank of China Tower resembles growing bamboo, a symbol of vitality in Chinese culture.<a href="#cite_note-141">[141]</a></figcaption></figure> The proposed site in Hong Kong's <a href="/wiki/Central,_Hong_Kong" title="Central, Hong Kong">Central District</a> was less than ideal; a tangle of highways lined it on three sides. The area had also been home to a headquarters for Japanese military police during World War II, and was notorious for prisoner torture. The small parcel of land made a tall tower necessary, and Pei had usually shied away from such projects; in Hong Kong especially, the skyscrapers lacked any real architectural character. Lacking inspiration and unsure of how to approach the building, Pei took a weekend vacation to the family home in <a href="/wiki/Katonah,_New_York" title="Katonah, New York">Katonah</a>, New York. There he found himself experimenting with a bundle of sticks until he happened upon a cascading sequence.<a href="#cite_note-142">[142]</a> Pei felt that his design for the <a href="/wiki/Bank_of_China_Tower,_Hong_Kong" class="mw-redirect" title="Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong">Bank of China Tower</a> needed to reflect "the aspirations of the Chinese people".<a href="#cite_note-143">[143]</a> The design that he developed for the skyscraper was not only unique in appearance, but also sound enough to pass the city's rigorous standards for wind-resistance. The building is composed of four triangular shafts rising up from a square base, supported by a visible <a href="/wiki/Truss" title="Truss">truss</a> structure that distributes stress to the four corners of the base. Using the reflective glass that had become something of a trademark for him, Pei organized the facade around diagonal bracing in a union of structure and form that reiterates the triangle motif established in the plan. At the top, he designed the roofs at sloping angles to match the rising aesthetic of the building. Some influential advocates of <a href="/wiki/Feng_shui" title="Feng shui">feng shui</a> in Hong Kong and China criticized the design, and Pei and government officials responded with token adjustments.<a href="#cite_note-144">[144]</a> As the tower neared completion, Pei was shocked to witness the government's massacre of unarmed civilians at the <a href="/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989" class="mw-redirect" title="Tiananmen Square protests of 1989">Tiananmen Square protests of 1989</a>. He wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times titled "China Won't Ever Be the Same", in which he said that the killings "tore the heart out of a generation that carries the hope for the future of the country".<a href="#cite_note-WQ294-145">[145]</a> The massacre deeply disturbed his entire family, and he wrote that "China is besmirched."<a href="#cite_note-WQ294-145">[145]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1990–2019:_museum_projects">1990–2019: museum projects</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: 1990–2019: museum projects">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cleveland_August_2015_47_(Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a gray tiled building, rises over a lake, with a cylinder set on a narrow pole, and a sloping glass wall on one end." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Cleveland_August_2015_47_%28Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum%29.jpg/220px-Cleveland_August_2015_47_%28Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Cleveland_August_2015_47_%28Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum%29.jpg/330px-Cleveland_August_2015_47_%28Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Cleveland_August_2015_47_%28Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum%29.jpg/440px-Cleveland_August_2015_47_%28Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>One staff member sympathized with Pei's frustrations with the lack of organization at the <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame</a>, admitting that he was "operating in a vacuum".<a href="#cite_note-WQ307-146">[146]</a></figcaption></figure> As the 1990s began, Pei transitioned into a role of decreased involvement with his firm. The staff had begun to shrink, and Pei wanted to dedicate himself to smaller projects allowing for more creativity. Before he made this change, however, he set to work on his last major project as active partner: the <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cleveland" title="Cleveland">Cleveland</a>, Ohio. Considering his work on such bastions of <a href="/wiki/High_culture" title="High culture">high culture</a> as the Louvre and U.S. National Gallery, some critics were surprised by his association with what many considered a tribute to <a href="/wiki/Low_culture" title="Low culture">low culture</a>. The sponsors of the hall, however, sought Pei for specifically this reason; they wanted the building to have an aura of respectability from the beginning. Pei accepted the commission in part because of the unique challenge it presented.<a href="#cite_note-147">[147]</a> Using a glass wall for the entrance, similar in appearance to his Louvre pyramid, Pei coated the exterior of the main building in white metal, and placed a large cylinder on a narrow perch to serve as a performance space. The combination of off-centered wraparounds and angled walls was, Pei said, designed to provide "a sense of tumultuous youthful energy, rebelling, flailing about".<a href="#cite_note-148">[148]</a> The building opened in 1995, and was received with moderate praise. The New York Times called it "a fine building", but Pei was among those who felt disappointed with the results. The museum's early beginnings in New York combined with an unclear mission created a fuzzy understanding among project leaders for precisely what was needed.<a href="#cite_note-WQ307-146">[146]</a> Although the city of Cleveland benefited greatly from the new tourist attraction, Pei was unhappy with it.<a href="#cite_note-WQ307-146">[146]</a> At the same time, Pei designed a new museum for <a href="/wiki/Luxembourg" title="Luxembourg">Luxembourg</a>, the Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, commonly known as the <a href="/wiki/Mudam" class="mw-redirect" title="Mudam">Mudam</a>. Drawing from the original shape of the <a href="/wiki/Fort_Th%C3%BCngen" title="Fort Thüngen">Fort Thüngen</a> walls where the museum was located, Pei planned to remove a portion of the original foundation. Public resistance to the historical loss forced a revision of his plan, however, and the project was nearly abandoned. The size of the building was halved, and it was set back from the original wall segments to preserve the foundation. Pei was disappointed with the alterations, but remained involved in the building process even during construction.<a href="#cite_note-149">[149]</a> In 1995, Pei was hired to design an extension to the <a href="/wiki/Deutsches_Historisches_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Deutsches Historisches Museum">Deutsches Historisches Museum</a>, or German Historical Museum in Berlin. Returning to the challenge of the East Building of the U.S. National Gallery, Pei worked to combine a <a href="/wiki/Modernism" title="Modernism">modernist</a> approach with a classical main structure. He described the glass cylinder addition as a "beacon",<a href="#cite_note-150">[150]</a> and topped it with a glass roof to allow plentiful sunlight inside. Pei had difficulty working with German government officials on the project; their utilitarian approach clashed with his passion for aesthetics. "They thought I was nothing but trouble", he said.<a href="#cite_note-151">[151]</a> Pei also worked at this time on two projects for a <a href="/wiki/Japanese_new_religions" title="Japanese new religions">new Japanese religious movement</a> called <a href="/wiki/Shinji_Shumeikai" title="Shinji Shumeikai">Shinji Shumeikai</a>. He was approached by the movement's spiritual leader, Kaishu Koyama, who impressed the architect with her sincerity and willingness to give him significant artistic freedom. One of the buildings was a bell tower, designed to resemble the <a href="/wiki/Bachi" title="Bachi">bachi</a> used when playing traditional instruments like the <a href="/wiki/Shamisen" title="Shamisen">shamisen</a>. Pei was unfamiliar with the movement's beliefs, but explored them in order to represent something meaningful in the tower. As he said: "It was a search for the sort of expression that is not at all technical."<a href="#cite_note-152">[152]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Miho_museum02n3872.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A passageway at the Miho Museum. A curving circular tunnel opens to reveal a building with a tall sloping roof and a circular window in the front door." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Miho_museum02n3872.jpg/220px-Miho_museum02n3872.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Miho_museum02n3872.jpg/330px-Miho_museum02n3872.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Miho_museum02n3872.jpg/440px-Miho_museum02n3872.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3872" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>Pei's tunnel through a mountain leading to the <a href="/wiki/Miho_Museum" title="Miho Museum">Miho Museum</a> was partly inspired by a story from fourth-century Chinese poet <a href="/wiki/Tao_Yuanming" title="Tao Yuanming">Tao Yuanming</a>.<a href="#cite_note-153">[153]</a></figcaption></figure> The experience was rewarding for Pei, and he agreed immediately to work with the group again. The new project was the <a href="/wiki/Miho_Museum" title="Miho Museum">Miho Museum</a>, to display Koyama's collection of <a href="/wiki/Japanese_tea_ceremony" title="Japanese tea ceremony">tea ceremony</a> artifacts. Pei visited the site in <a href="/wiki/Shiga_Prefecture" title="Shiga Prefecture">Shiga Prefecture</a>, and during their conversations convinced Koyama to expand her collection. She conducted a global search and acquired more than 300 items showcasing the history of the <a href="/wiki/Silk_Road" title="Silk Road">Silk Road</a>.<a href="#cite_note-154">[154]</a> One major challenge was the approach to the museum. The Japanese team proposed a winding road up the mountain, not unlike the approach to the NCAR building in Colorado. Instead, Pei ordered a hole cut through a nearby mountain, connected to a major road via a bridge suspended from ninety-six steel cables and supported by a post set into the mountain. The museum itself was built into the mountain, with 80 percent of the building underground.<a href="#cite_note-155">[155]</a> When designing the exterior, Pei borrowed from the tradition of Japanese temples, particularly those found in nearby <a href="/wiki/Kyoto" title="Kyoto">Kyoto</a>. He created a concise <a href="/wiki/Space_frame" title="Space frame">spaceframe</a> wrapped into French limestone and covered with a glass roof. Pei also oversaw specific decorative details, including a bench in the entrance lobby, carved from a 350-year-old <a href="/wiki/Zelkova_serrata" title="Zelkova serrata">keyaki</a> tree. Because of Koyama's considerable wealth, money was rarely considered an obstacle; estimates at the time of completion put the cost of the project at US$350 million.<a href="#cite_note-156">[156]</a> During the first decade of the 2000s, Pei designed a variety of buildings, including the <a href="/wiki/Suzhou_Museum" title="Suzhou Museum">Suzhou Museum</a> near his childhood home.<a href="#cite_note-157">[157]</a> He also designed the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Islamic_Art,_Doha" title="Museum of Islamic Art, Doha">Museum of Islamic Art</a> in <a href="/wiki/Doha" title="Doha">Doha</a>, Qatar, at the request of <a href="/wiki/Collecting_practices_of_the_Al-Thani_Family" title="Collecting practices of the Al-Thani Family">the Al-Thani Family</a>. Although it was originally planned for the <a href="/wiki/Corniche" title="Corniche">corniche</a> road along <a href="/wiki/Doha_Bay" title="Doha Bay">Doha Bay</a>, Pei convinced the project coordinators to build a new island to provide the needed space. He then spent six months touring the region and surveying mosques in Spain, Syria, and Tunisia. He was especially impressed with the elegant simplicity of the <a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_Ibn_Tulun" title="Mosque of Ibn Tulun">Mosque of Ibn Tulun</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a>. Once again, Pei sought to combine new design elements with the classical aesthetic most appropriate for the location of the building. The sand-colored rectangular boxes rotate evenly to create a subtle movement, with small arched windows at regular intervals into the limestone exterior. Inside, galleries are arranged around a massive atrium, lit from above. The museum's coordinators were pleased with the project; its official website describes its "true splendour unveiled in the sunlight," and speaks of "the shades of colour and the interplay of shadows paying tribute to the essence of Islamic architecture".<a href="#cite_note-mia-158">[158]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Centro_de_Ci%C3%AAncia_de_Macau.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The Macao Science Center, a conical steel structure. There is a body of water in front of the building." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Centro_de_Ci%C3%AAncia_de_Macau.jpg/220px-Centro_de_Ci%C3%AAncia_de_Macau.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Centro_de_Ci%C3%AAncia_de_Macau.jpg/330px-Centro_de_Ci%C3%AAncia_de_Macau.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Centro_de_Ci%C3%AAncia_de_Macau.jpg/440px-Centro_de_Ci%C3%AAncia_de_Macau.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="2248" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Macao_Science_Center" title="Macao Science Center">Macao Science Center</a> in Macau, designed by <a href="/wiki/Pei_Partnership_Architects" class="mw-redirect" title="Pei Partnership Architects">Pei Partnership Architects</a> in association with I. M. Pei.</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/Macao_Science_Center" title="Macao Science Center">Macao Science Center</a> in Macau was designed by <a href="/wiki/Pei_Partnership_Architects" class="mw-redirect" title="Pei Partnership Architects">Pei Partnership Architects</a> in association with I. M. Pei. The project to build the science center was conceived in 2001 and construction started in 2006.<a href="#cite_note-159">[159]</a> The center was completed in 2009 and opened by the Chinese President <a href="/wiki/Hu_Jintao" title="Hu Jintao">Hu Jintao</a>.<a href="#cite_note-peopledaily-160">[160]</a> The main part of the building is a distinctive conical shape with a spiral walkway and large atrium inside, similar to that of the <a href="/wiki/Solomon_R._Guggenheim_Museum" title="Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum">Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum</a> in New York City. Galleries lead off the walkway, mainly consisting of interactive exhibits aimed at science education. The building is in a prominent position by the sea and is now a Macau landmark.<a href="#cite_note-peopledaily-160">[160]</a> Pei's career ended with his death in May 2019, at 102 years of age.<a href="#cite_note-:1-28">[28]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Style_and_method">Style and method</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Style and method">edit</a>]</div> Pei's style was described as thoroughly modernist, with significant cubist themes.<a href="#cite_note-161">[161]</a> He was known for combining traditional architectural principles with progressive designs based on simple geometric patterns—circles, squares, and triangles are common elements of his work in both plan and elevation. As one critic wrote: "Pei has been aptly described as combining a classical sense of form with a contemporary mastery of method."<a href="#cite_note-162">[162]</a> In 2000, biographer Carter Wiseman called Pei "the most distinguished member of his Late-Modernist generation still in practice".<a href="#cite_note-Wiseman,_p._323-163">[163]</a> At the same time, Pei himself rejected simple dichotomies of architectural trends. He once said: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">The talk about modernism versus <a href="/wiki/Postmodern_architecture" title="Postmodern architecture">post-modernism</a> is unimportant. It's a side issue. An individual building, the style in which it is going to be designed and built, is not that important. The important thing, really, is the community. How does it affect life?<a href="#cite_note-164">[164]</a></blockquote> Pei's work is celebrated throughout the world of architecture. His colleague <a href="/wiki/John_Portman" class="mw-redirect" title="John Portman">John Portman</a> once told him: "Just once, I'd like to do something like the <a href="/wiki/East_Building" class="mw-redirect" title="East Building">East Building</a>."<a href="#cite_note-WQ215-165">[165]</a> But this originality did not always bring large financial reward; as Pei replied to the successful architect: "Just once, I'd like to make the kind of money you do."<a href="#cite_note-WQ215-165">[165]</a> His concepts, moreover, were too individualized and dependent on context to have given rise to a particular school of design. Pei referred to his own "analytical approach" when explaining the lack of a "Pei School". "For me," he said, "the important distinction is between a stylistic approach to the design; and an analytical approach giving the process of due consideration to time, place, and purpose ... My analytical approach requires a full understanding of the three essential elements ... to arrive at an ideal balance among them."<a href="#cite_note-166">[166]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Awards and honors">edit</a>]</div> In the words of his biographer, Pei won "every award of any consequence in his art",<a href="#cite_note-Wiseman,_p._323-163">[163]</a> including the Arnold Brunner Award from the <a href="/wiki/National_Institute_of_Arts_and_Letters" class="mw-redirect" title="National Institute of Arts and Letters">National Institute of Arts and Letters</a> (1963), the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters_Gold_Medals" title="American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals">Gold Medal</a> for Architecture from the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters" title="American Academy of Arts and Letters">American Academy of Arts and Letters</a> (1979), the <a href="/wiki/AIA_Gold_Medal" title="AIA Gold Medal">AIA Gold Medal</a> (1979), the first <a href="/wiki/Praemium_Imperiale" title="Praemium Imperiale">Praemium Imperiale</a> for Architecture from the Japan Art Association (1989), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the <a href="/wiki/Cooper-Hewitt,_National_Design_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum">Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum</a>, the 1998 <a href="/wiki/Edward_MacDowell_Medal" title="Edward MacDowell Medal">Edward MacDowell Medal</a> in the Arts,<a href="#cite_note-167">[167]</a> and the 2010 <a href="/wiki/Royal_Gold_Medal" title="Royal Gold Medal">Royal Gold Medal</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Institute_of_British_Architects" title="Royal Institute of British Architects">Royal Institute of British Architects</a>. In 1983 he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Pritzker_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Pritzker Prize">Pritzker Prize</a>, sometimes referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture. In its citation, the jury said: "Ieoh Ming Pei has given this century some of its most beautiful interior spaces and exterior forms ... His versatility and skill in the use of materials approach the level of poetry."<a href="#cite_note-pritzker-168">[168]</a> The prize was accompanied by a US$100,000 award, which Pei used to create a scholarship for Chinese students to study architecture in the U.S., on the condition that they return to China to work.<a href="#cite_note-169">[169]</a> In 1986, he was one of twelve recipients of the <a href="/wiki/Medal_of_Liberty" title="Medal of Liberty">Medal of Liberty</a>. When he was awarded the 2003 <a href="/wiki/Henry_C._Turner_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="Henry C. Turner Prize">Henry C. Turner Prize</a> by the <a href="/wiki/National_Building_Museum" title="National Building Museum">National Building Museum</a>, museum board chair Carolyn Brody praised his impact on construction innovation: "His magnificent designs have challenged engineers to devise innovative structural solutions, and his exacting expectations for construction quality have encouraged contractors to achieve high standards."<a href="#cite_note-Turner-170">[170]</a> In December 1992, Pei was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> by President <a href="/wiki/George_H._W._Bush" title="George H. W. Bush">George H. W. Bush</a>.<a href="#cite_note-171">[171]</a> In 1996, Pei became the first person to be elected a foreign member of the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Academy_of_Engineering" title="Chinese Academy of Engineering">Chinese Academy of Engineering</a>.<a href="#cite_note-172">[172]</a> Pei was also an elected member of the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> and the <a href="/wiki/American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a>.<a href="#cite_note-173">[173]</a><a href="#cite_note-174">[174]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Personal life">edit</a>]</div> Pei's wife, Eileen Loo, died on June 20, 2014.<a href="#cite_note-175">[175]</a> Together they had three sons, T'ing Chung (1945–2003),<a href="#cite_note-176">[176]</a> Chien Chung (1946–2023; known as Didi), and Li Chung (b. 1949; known as Sandi); and a daughter, Liane (b. 1960).<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> T'ing Chung was an <a href="/wiki/Urban_planning" title="Urban planning">urban planner</a> and alumnus of his father's alma mater MIT and Harvard. Chieng Chung and Li Chung, who are both <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Graduate_School_of_Design" title="Harvard Graduate School of Design">Harvard Graduate School of Design</a> alumni, founded and run <a href="/wiki/Pei_Partnership_Architects" class="mw-redirect" title="Pei Partnership Architects">Pei Partnership Architects</a>. Liane is a lawyer.<a href="#cite_note-177">[177]</a> In 2015, Pei's home health aide, Eter Nikolaishvili, grabbed Pei's right forearm and twisted it, resulting in bruising and bleeding and hospital treatment. Pei alleged that the assault occurred when Pei threatened to call the police about Nikolaishvili. Nikolaishvili agreed to plead guilty in 2016.<a href="#cite_note-178">[178]</a><a href="#cite_note-179">[179]</a><a href="#cite_note-180">[180]</a> Pei celebrated his <a href="/wiki/Centenarian" title="Centenarian">100th birthday</a> on April 26, 2017.<a href="#cite_note-181">[181]</a> He died at his <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a> apartment on May 16, 2019, at the age of 102.<a href="#cite_note-:0-5">[5]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: In popular culture">edit</a>]</div> In the 2021 parody film <a href="/wiki/America:_The_Motion_Picture" title="America: The Motion Picture">America: The Motion Picture</a>, I. M. Pei was voiced by <a href="/wiki/David_Callaham" title="David Callaham">David Callaham</a>.<a href="#cite_note-182">[182]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_people_in_New_York_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese people in New York City">Chinese Americans in New York City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_I._M._Pei_projects" title="List of I. M. Pei projects">List of I. M. Pei projects</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notes">Notes</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/02/classified/paid-notice-deaths-pei-t-ing-chung.html">"T'ing Chung Pei Obituary"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>. 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Munich: Prestel, 2000. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-7913-2176-5" title="Special:BookSources/3-7913-2176-5">3-7913-2176-5</a>.</li> <li>Cobb, Henry Nichols (2018). Henry N. Cobb: Words and Works 1948–2018: Scenes from a Life in Architecture. New York: Monacelli Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-58093-514-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-58093-514-2">978-1-58093-514-2</a>.</li> <li>Diamonstein, Barbaralee. American Architecture Now. New York: Rizzoli, 1980. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8478-0329-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-8478-0329-5">0-8478-0329-5</a>.</li> <li>Heyer, Paul. Architects on Architecture: New Directions in America. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-442-01751-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-442-01751-0">0-442-01751-0</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruggero_Lenci" title="Ruggero Lenci">Lenci, Ruggero</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ruggerolenci.it/Libri/I.M.%20Pei,%20Teoremi%20spaziali,%20Ruggero%20Lenci.html">I. M. Pei: teoremi spaziali</a>. Turin, Testo & Immagine, 2004. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/88-8382-143-2" title="Special:BookSources/88-8382-143-2">88-8382-143-2</a>.</li> <li>Moeller, Gerard M. and Weeks, Christopher. AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D.C. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.</li> <li>Williams, Paul Kelsey. Southwest Washington, D.C. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia, 2005.</li> <li>Wiseman, Carter. I. M. Pei: A Profile in American Architecture. New York: H. N. Abrams, 2001. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8109-3477-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-8109-3477-9">0-8109-3477-9</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Documentaries">Documentaries</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Documentaries">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>The Museum on the Mountain, 1998, aired on <a href="/wiki/Ovation_(American_TV_channel)" title="Ovation (American TV channel)">Ovation</a>. The 60-minute documentary interviewed I. M. Pei in Japan on his design of <a href="/wiki/Miho_Museum" title="Miho Museum">Miho Museum</a>, Japan. Compiled into a 2-hour home video documentary as I.M. Pei: The Museum on the Mountain, 2003.</li> <li>First Person Singular: I. M. Pei, 1997, aired on <a href="/wiki/PBS" title="PBS">PBS</a>. 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Pei: The Museum on the Mountain, 2003.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=I._M._Pei&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/34px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="34" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/51px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikiquote-logo.svg/68px-Wikiquote-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="355" /></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikiquote has quotations related to <a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Search/I._M._Pei" class="extiw" title="q:Special:Search/I. 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Pei projects">List of projects</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/131_Ponce_de_Leon_Avenue" title="131 Ponce de Leon Avenue">131 Ponce de Leon Avenue</a> (1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roosevelt_Field_(shopping_mall)" title="Roosevelt Field (shopping mall)">Roosevelt Field Mall</a> (1951)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_L._Slayton_House" title="William L. Slayton House">William L. Slayton House</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erieview_Tower" title="Erieview Tower">Erieview Plan</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Town_Center_East" title="Town Center East">Town Center East</a> (1960–61)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Government_Center,_Boston,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Government Center, Boston, Massachusetts">Government Center Master Plan</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_Apartments_(Chicago)" title="University Apartments (Chicago)">University Apartments</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cathedral_of_Saints_Peter_and_Paul_(Providence,_Rhode_Island)" title="Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul (Providence, Rhode Island)">Cathedral Square of Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul</a> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hale_Manoa_Dormitory#Hale_Manoa_Dormitory" class="mw-redirect" title="Hale Manoa Dormitory">Hale Manoa Dormitory</a> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waterfront_Tower_(Washington,_D.C.)" title="Waterfront Tower (Washington, D.C.)">Waterfront Tower</a> (1960s)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kips_Bay_Towers" title="Kips Bay Towers">Kips Bay Plaza</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luce_Memorial_Chapel" title="Luce Memorial Chapel">Luce Memorial Chapel</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Society_Hill_Towers" title="Society Hill Towers">Society Hill Towers</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_Building_(MIT)" title="Green Building (MIT)">MIT Green Building</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/S._I._Newhouse_School_of_Public_Communications" title="S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications">S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/City_View_(Pittsburgh)" title="City View (Pittsburgh)">Washington Plaza</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Century_Towers" title="The Century Towers">The Century Towers</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_Village_(Manhattan)" title="University Village (Manhattan)">University Village</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mesa_Laboratory" title="Mesa Laboratory">Mesa Laboratory</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Des_Moines_Art_Center" title="Des Moines Art Center">Des Moines Art Center sculpture wing</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Everson_Museum_of_Art" title="Everson Museum of Art">Everson Museum of Art</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleo_Rogers_Memorial_Library" title="Cleo Rogers Memorial Library">Cleo Rogers Memorial Library</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University Master Plan</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sundrome" title="Sundrome">Sundrome</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grave_of_Robert_F._Kennedy" title="Grave of Robert F. Kennedy">Grave of Robert F. Kennedy</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/I._M._Pei_Building" title="I. M. Pei Building">I. M. Pei Building</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Mellon_Arts_Center" title="Paul Mellon Arts Center">Paul Mellon Arts Center</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commerce_Court" title="Commerce Court">Commerce Court West</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_F._Johnson_Museum_of_Art" title="Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art">Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lamar_Building" title="Lamar Building">Lamar Building penthouse</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/OCBC_Centre" title="OCBC Centre">Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Centre</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dallas_City_Hall" title="Dallas City Hall">Dallas City Hall</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art" title="National Gallery of Art">National Gallery of Art East Building</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Presidential_Library_and_Museum" title="John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum">John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/One_Dallas_Center" title="One Dallas Center">One Dallas Center</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Biltmore_Company" title="The Biltmore Company">Biltmore Building</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Fine_Arts,_Boston" title="Museum of Fine Arts, Boston">Museum of Fine Arts West Wing</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eskenazi_Museum_of_Art" title="Eskenazi Museum of Art">Eskenazi Museum of Art</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunning_Plaza" title="Sunning Plaza">Sunning Plaza</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/JPMorgan_Chase_Tower_(Houston)" title="JPMorgan Chase Tower (Houston)">Texas Commerce Tower</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/16th_Street_Mall" title="16th Street Mall">16th Street Mall, Denver</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Energy_Plaza" title="Energy Plaza">Energy Plaza</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/IBM_Somers_Office_Complex" title="IBM Somers Office Complex">IBM Somers Office Complex</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wiesner_Building" title="Wiesner Building">Wiesner Building</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raffles_City_Singapore" title="Raffles City Singapore">Raffles City</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swiss%C3%B4tel_The_Stamford" title="Swissôtel The Stamford">Swissôtel The Stamford</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miami_Tower" title="Miami Tower">Miami Tower</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bank_of_China_Tower_(Hong_Kong)" title="Bank of China Tower (Hong Kong)">Bank of China Tower (Hong Kong)</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morton_H._Meyerson_Symphony_Center" title="Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center">Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Gateway_(Singapore)" title="The Gateway (Singapore)">The Gateway</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Kirklin_Clinic" class="mw-redirect" title="The Kirklin Clinic">The Kirklin Clinic</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Four_Seasons_Hotel_New_York" title="Four Seasons Hotel New York">Four Seasons Hotel New York</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louvre_Pyramid" title="Louvre Pyramid">Louvre Pyramid</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louvre_Inverted_Pyramid" title="Louvre Inverted Pyramid">Louvre Inverted Pyramid</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame" title="Rock and Roll Hall of Fame">Rock and Roll Hall of Fame</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buck_Institute_for_Research_on_Aging" title="Buck Institute for Research on Aging">Buck Institute for Research on Aging</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miho_Museum" title="Miho Museum">Miho Museum</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oare_Pavilion" title="Oare Pavilion">Oare Pavilion</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deutsches_Historisches_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Deutsches Historisches Museum">Deutsches Historisches Museum Zeughaus Wing</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mudam" class="mw-redirect" title="Mudam">MUDAM-Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Suzhou_Museum" title="Suzhou Museum">Suzhou Museum New Wings</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Embassy_of_China_in_Washington,_D.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Embassy of China in Washington, D.C.">Embassy of China in Washington, D.C.</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Islamic_Art,_Doha" title="Museum of Islamic Art, Doha">Museum of Islamic Art</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macau_Science_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Macau Science Center">Macau Science Center</a> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pei_Plan" title="Pei Plan">Pei Plan</a> (1964)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pei_Cobb_Freed_%26_Partners" title="Pei Cobb Freed & Partners">Pei Cobb Freed & Partners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PEI_Architects" title="PEI Architects">PEI Architects</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yann_Weymouth" title="Yann Weymouth">Yann Weymouth</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="National_Medal_of_Arts_recipients_(1980s)" 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href="/wiki/Leontyne_Price" title="Leontyne Price">Leontyne Price</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Buffum_Chandler" title="Dorothy Buffum Chandler">Dorothy Buffum Chandler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Kirstein" title="Lincoln Kirstein">Lincoln Kirstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Mellon" title="Paul Mellon">Paul Mellon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Tully" title="Alice Tully">Alice Tully</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hallmark_Cards" title="Hallmark Cards">Hallmark Cards, Inc.</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1986</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marian_Anderson" title="Marian Anderson">Marian Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Capra" title="Frank Capra">Frank Capra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aaron_Copland" title="Aaron Copland">Aaron Copland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willem_de_Kooning" title="Willem de Kooning">Willem de Kooning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agnes_de_Mille" title="Agnes de Mille">Agnes de Mille</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eva_Le_Gallienne" title="Eva Le Gallienne">Eva Le Gallienne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Lomax" title="Alan Lomax">Alan Lomax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_Mumford" title="Lewis Mumford">Lewis Mumford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eudora_Welty" title="Eudora Welty">Eudora Welty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominique_de_Menil" title="Dominique de Menil">Dominique de Menil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ExxonMobil" title="ExxonMobil">Exxon Corporation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seymour_H._Knox_II" title="Seymour H. 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Fisher</li> <li>Frances Fisher</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armand_Hammer" title="Armand Hammer">Armand Hammer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Lewis" title="Sydney Lewis">Sydney Lewis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1988</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Saul_Bellow" title="Saul Bellow">Saul Bellow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Hayes" title="Helen Hayes">Helen Hayes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Parks" title="Gordon Parks">Gordon Parks</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">I. M. Pei</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerome_Robbins" title="Jerome Robbins">Jerome Robbins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Serkin" title="Rudolf Serkin">Rudolf Serkin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virgil_Thomson" title="Virgil Thomson">Virgil Thomson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sydney_Joseph_Freedberg" title="Sydney Joseph Freedberg">Sydney J. Freedberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_L._Stevens" title="Roger L. Stevens">Roger L. Stevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brooke_Astor" title="Brooke Astor">Brooke Astor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Goelet" class="mw-redirect" title="Francis Goelet">Francis Goelet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Obert_C._Tanner" title="Obert C. Tanner">Obert Clark Tanner</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1989</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Leopold Adler</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katherine_Dunham" title="Katherine Dunham">Katherine Dunham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Eisenstaedt" title="Alfred Eisenstaedt">Alfred Eisenstaedt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Friedman_(museum_director)" title="Martin Friedman (museum director)">Martin Friedman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leigh_Gerdine" title="Leigh Gerdine">Leigh Gerdine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie" title="Dizzy Gillespie">John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walker_Hancock" title="Walker Hancock">Walker Hancock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Horowitz" title="Vladimir Horowitz">Vladimir Horowitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Czes%C5%82aw_Mi%C5%82osz" title="Czesław Miłosz">Czesław Miłosz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Motherwell" title="Robert Motherwell">Robert Motherwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Updike" title="John Updike">John Updike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Target_Corporation" title="Target Corporation">Dayton Hudson Corporation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_recipients_of_the_National_Medal_of_Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="List of recipients of the National Medal of Arts">Complete list</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:National_Medal_of_Arts_recipients_1980s" title="Template:National Medal of Arts recipients 1980s">1980s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:National_Medal_of_Arts_recipients_1990s" title="Template:National Medal of Arts recipients 1990s">1990s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:National_Medal_of_Arts_recipients_2000s" title="Template:National Medal of Arts recipients 2000s">2000s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:National_Medal_of_Arts_recipients_2010s" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:National Medal of Arts recipients 2010s">2010s</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Pritzker_Architecture_Prize_laureates" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Pritzker_Prize_laureates" title="Template:Pritzker Prize laureates"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Pritzker_Prize_laureates" title="Template talk:Pritzker Prize laureates"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Pritzker_Prize_laureates" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Pritzker Prize laureates"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Pritzker_Architecture_Prize_laureates" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Pritzker_Architecture_Prize" title="Pritzker Architecture Prize">Pritzker Architecture Prize</a> <a href="/wiki/Laureate" title="Laureate">laureates</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Johnson" title="Philip Johnson">Philip Johnson</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luis_Barrag%C3%A1n" title="Luis Barragán">Luis Barragán</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Stirling_(architect)" title="James Stirling (architect)">James Stirling</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Roche" title="Kevin Roche">Kevin Roche</a> (1982)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">I. M. Pei</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Meier" title="Richard Meier">Richard Meier</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Hollein" title="Hans Hollein">Hans Hollein</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gottfried_B%C3%B6hm" title="Gottfried Böhm">Gottfried Böhm</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenz%C5%8D_Tange" title="Kenzō Tange">Kenzo Tange</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Bunshaft" title="Gordon Bunshaft">Gordon Bunshaft</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Niemeyer" title="Oscar Niemeyer">Oscar Niemeyer</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Gehry" title="Frank Gehry">Frank Gehry</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aldo_Rossi" title="Aldo Rossi">Aldo Rossi</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Venturi" title="Robert Venturi">Robert Venturi</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%81lvaro_Siza_Vieira" title="Álvaro Siza Vieira">Álvaro Siza Vieira</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fumihiko_Maki" title="Fumihiko Maki">Fumihiko Maki</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_de_Portzamparc" title="Christian de Portzamparc">Christian de Portzamparc</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tadao_Ando" title="Tadao Ando">Tadao Ando</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rafael_Moneo" title="Rafael Moneo">Rafael Moneo</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sverre_Fehn" title="Sverre Fehn">Sverre Fehn</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renzo_Piano" title="Renzo Piano">Renzo Piano</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Foster,_Baron_Foster_of_Thames_Bank" title="Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank">Norman Foster</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rem_Koolhaas" title="Rem Koolhaas">Rem Koolhaas</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herzog_%26_de_Meuron" title="Herzog & de Meuron">Herzog & de Meuron</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glenn_Murcutt" title="Glenn Murcutt">Glenn Murcutt</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B8rn_Utzon" title="Jørn Utzon">Jørn Utzon</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zaha_Hadid" title="Zaha Hadid">Zaha Hadid</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thom_Mayne" title="Thom Mayne">Thom Mayne</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paulo_Mendes_da_Rocha" title="Paulo Mendes da Rocha">Paulo Mendes da Rocha</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Rogers" title="Richard Rogers">Richard Rogers</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Nouvel" title="Jean Nouvel">Jean Nouvel</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Zumthor" title="Peter Zumthor">Peter Zumthor</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazuyo_Sejima" title="Kazuyo Sejima">Kazuyo Sejima</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ryue_Nishizawa" title="Ryue Nishizawa">Ryue Nishizawa</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eduardo_Souto_de_Moura" title="Eduardo Souto de Moura">Eduardo Souto de Moura</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wang_Shu" title="Wang Shu">Wang Shu</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toyo_Ito" title="Toyo Ito">Toyo Ito</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shigeru_Ban" title="Shigeru Ban">Shigeru Ban</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frei_Otto" title="Frei Otto">Frei Otto</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alejandro_Aravena" title="Alejandro Aravena">Alejandro Aravena</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rafael_Aranda" class="mw-redirect" title="Rafael Aranda">Rafael Aranda</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carme_Pigem" title="Carme Pigem">Carme Pigem</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ram%C3%B3n_Vilalta" class="mw-redirect" title="Ramón Vilalta">Ramón Vilalta</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._V._Doshi" title="B. 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