•During World War Ⅱ, he served on the National defense Research Commission at Princeton, and from 1945 to 1948, taught at Harvard. In 1948 he accepted the newly created post of director of Architecture at Webb & Knapp, Inc., the real estate development firm, and this association resulted in major architectural and planning projects in Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburgh and other cities. In 1958, he formed the partnership of I. M. Pei & Associates, which became I. M. Pei & Parteners in 1966.
2003 National Design Award: Lifetime Achievement Award）
2003 Henry C. Turner Prize(for Innovation in Construction Technology）
2006 Orient und Okzident Preis 2009 英国RIBA皇家金质奖章
Study & Work
• He came to the United States in 1935 to study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B. Arch. 1940) and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (M. Arch. 1946).
Award
1961 The Arnold Brunner Award
1963 The Medal of Honor
70 Golden Door Award
1976 The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Medal for distinguished contribution to the field of architecture
Good Bye
1990 University of California at Los Angeles 「UCLA奖」
1991 First Award for Excellence
1994 Bezalel Academy of Art and Design
Jerusalem Prize for Arts and Letters
1996 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal
1997 Independent Award
1998 Edward MacDowell Medal
1999 Cultural Laureate
2001 The Thomas Jefferson Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts,Humanities,and Social Sciences
1981 La Grande Médaille d'Or The Mayor's Award of Honor for Art and Culture
1981 Gold Medal of Honor
1983 Pritzker Architecture Prize
1989 Japesen Praemium Imperiale in honor of prince taeamarsu
Pei wanted the open
spaces and buildings of
L‘Enfant Plaza to be
“functionally and visually related” to one
another.
Pei felt that his design for the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong needed to reflect "the aspirations of the Chinese people"
1994 Gold Medal for Outstanding
Achievement in Architecture
1994 New York State Governor's Arts Award
1996 Premio Internazionale Novecento La Rosa d'Oro
Ieoh Ming Pei
——famous architect
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Outline
• Brief introduction • Study & Work • Award • Well-known works
Brief introduction
• Ieoh Ming Pei (born April 26, 1917), commonly known as I. M. Pei, is a Chinese American architect, often called a master of modern architecture. Born in Canton, China and raised in Hong Kong and Shanghai, Pei drew inspiration at an early age from the gardens at Suzhou.
1978 Elsie de Wolfe Award
1978 Elsie de Wolfe Award
1979 The Gold Medal for Architecture of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
1979 AIA Gold Medal
Pei decided that a pyramid was "most compatible" with the other structures at the Louvre, complementing their roofs' faceted planes.
Pei was surprised by public resistance to his traditional design of the hotel at Fragrant Hills. "Many people thought I was being reactionary," he said.