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2 days ago · Overview. I. M. Pei (1917–2019) was one of the world’s most influential architects. Born and raised in China, Pei trained and worked in the United States, establishing a practice that spanned seven decades and multiple continents. His legacy includes the realization of some of the most high-profile projects of the late twentieth and early ...
1 day ago · Share. M+ Museum in Hong Kong has unveiled the first full-scale retrospective of the renowned Chinese-American architect leoh Ming Pei (1917-2019), widely known as I. M. Pei. Located in the West ...
4 days ago · As an architect who designed many acclaimed works and whose career spanned 60 years—from when Pei joined William Zeckendorf to head the architectural division of giant real-estate-development firm Webb & Knapp in 1948 to the design of his last project, the Miho Institute of Aesthetics Chapel in Japan in 2008—it is, after all, his unrealized work that is most surprising.
3 days ago · Christopher Dewolf July 24, 2024. The new M+ show on I.M. Pei is full of fascinating artefacts, but Aric Chen still thinks about the one that got away. In 2019, he was in New York with curator Shirley Surya to visit the archives of Pei Cobb Freed and Partners, looking for interesting material about the renowned architect.
4 days ago · The Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY was inaugurated in 1968 to a design by legendary 20th-century master IM Pei (whose retrospective exhibition recently opened at M+ in Hong Kong) - the first-ever museum to be designed by the Chinese-American architect.
4 days ago · Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, museum and hall of fame in Cleveland that celebrates the history and cultural significance of rock music and honours the contributions of those who have played an important role in the music’s creation and dissemination.
4 days ago · The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies are delighted to announce that Prof Alain Fouad George (IM Pei Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Director, Khalili Research Centre) has been elected Fellow of the British Academy.
