Leoh Ming Pei is a Chinese-American architect who was born in April , 1917 in Suzhou, China. He came to America to study architecture when he was 17. He first enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania. However soon he was frustrated with the way they taught architecture so he quickly transferred to MIT. Pei believed architecture should not be constraied by any ism, his style of designing is extremely modern and has distinct cubist themes. He worked with New York real estate after graduation for 10 years and later opened up his own firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. His early projects are distributed in different cities of America and in 1974 he went back to Hong Kong to design a skyscraper for the Bank of China.
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http://www.pcf-p.com/a/f/fme/imp/b/b.html (accessed 21/7/2011)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.M._Pei#Style_and_awards (accessed 21/7/2011)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FKPKRSz9p8&feature=related (accessed 21/7/2011)
Projects of I.M. Pei:
Images from up to down in order:
1. Mesa Laboratory 2. The new Louvre courtyard with pyramid
3. John F Kennedy Library 4. Bank of China tower
Awards of Pei:
AIA Gold Medal (1979)
the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture (1989)
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (2003)
Pritzker Prize (1983)
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