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Biography of I. M. PeiName: I. M. PeiBirth Date: April 26, 1917 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Canton, China Nationality: Chinese, American Gender: Male Occupations: architect I. M. Pei Chinese-American architect, I. M. Pei (born 1917), directed for nearly 40 years one of the most successful architectural practices in the United States. Known for his dramatic use of concrete and glass, Pei counted among his most famous buildings the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. the John Hancock Tower in Boston, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland, Ohio.Ieoh Ming Pei was born in Canton, China, on April 26, 1917. His early childhood was spent in Canton and Hong Kong, where his father worked as director of the Bank of China. In the late 1920s the Pei family moved to Shanghai, where I. M. attended St. Johns Middle School. His father, who had many British banking connections, encouraged his son to attend college in England, but I. M. decided to emigrate to the United States in order to study architecture at the …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…of his buildings see Paul Goldberger, "The Winning Ways of I. M. Pei," New York Times Magazine (May 20, 1979). Also helpful are a number of recorded interviews; the two best are Andrea O. Dean, "Conversations: I. M. Pei," Journal of the American Institute of Architects (June 1979) and Barbaralee Diamonstein, "I. M. Pei: 'The Modern Movement Is Now Wide Open'," Art News 77 (Summer 1978). See also Paul Heyer, Architects on Architecture (1966).A chronological list of Pei's major works appears in the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (1983). Articles on individual buildings can be found in either the Art Index or the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals. Ada Louise Huxtable offers a critic's view of some of Pei's buildings in her book Kicked a Building Lately? (1976). Pei himself wrote very little, but see two articles by him: "Standardized Propaganda Units for the Chinese Government," Task 1 (1942), and "The Sowing and Reaping of Shape," Christian Science Monitor (March 16, 1978). |