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I. M. Pei's ancestry traces back to the Ming dynasty, when his family moved from Anhui to Suzhou. [8] The family made their wealth in medicinal herbs, then joined the ranks of the scholar-gentry. [9] Pei Ieoh Ming was born on April 26, 1917, to Tsuyee and Lien Kwun, and the family moved to Hong Kong one year later. It eventually included five ...
Ieoh Ming Pei, the son of a prominent banker in China, left his homeland in 1935, moving to the United States and studying architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard ...
PEI Architects, formerly Pei Partnership Architects, is an international architecture firm based in New York City. Co-founded by the sons of I. M. Pei, Chien Chung (Didi) Pei and Li Chung (Sandi) Pei, in 1992, PEI Architects has specialized in high-profile projects including museums, healthcare facilities, commercial buildings, and high-rise residential towers, as well as urban masterplans and ...
Among the Library's art collection is a 1962 portrait of Robert F. Kennedy by Lajos Markos, [42] a watercolor sketch of John F. Kennedy by Jamie Wyeth, [43] a watercolor painting of the White House painted by Jacqueline Kennedy and given as a gift to her husband, who had it hung in the Oval Office, [44] a fingerpainting by Caroline Kennedy as a ...
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This is a list of I. M. Pei projects. I. M. Pei (1917–2019) was a Chinese-American architect known for his creative use of modernist architecture in combination with natural elements and open spaces. During his decades of architectural work, he designed some of the world's most recognizable buildings in countries around the world.
Araldo Cossutta (January 11, 1925 – February 24, 2017) was an architect who worked primarily in the United States. [1] [2] He worked at the firm I. M. Pei & Partners from 1956 to 1973.
Wang's family and the support they show him throughout his life are also central in the film. His mother, Dr. Alian Xu, came to the U.S. in 1986 and his late father, Dr. Zhensheng Wang, arrived in ...