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(in association with Pei Partnership Architects) Museum of Islamic Art: Doha: Qatar: 2008: The Museum of Islamic Art is reminiscent of the design of the National Assembly Building of Dhaka, Bangladesh by Louis Kahn; Pei has been known to admire this building's design. The Museum is connected to the mainland by three 215-foot-long bridges and ...
Dr. Mao Yisheng a.k.a. Thomson Eason Mao (Chinese: 茅以升; pinyin: Máo Yǐshēng; Wade–Giles: Mao 2 I 3-sheng 1; January 9, 1896 – November 12, 1989) was a Chinese structural engineer and social activist.
Once he arrived, however, the dean of the architecture school commented on his eye for design and convinced Pei to return to his original major. [24] MIT's architecture faculty was also focused on the Beaux-Arts school, and Pei found himself uninspired by the work. In the library he found three books by the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier.
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Pei, a slight man who wore round, owl-ish glasses, became a U.S. citizen in 1955. He was married to Eileen Loo from 1942 until her death in 2014. They had four children, two of whom became architects.
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 ...
The William L. Slayton House located in the Cleveland Park neighborhood in Washington, D.C., is a house that was designed by I.M. Pei in the International Style.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 2, 2008, [2] and was the 14th property listed as a featured property of the week in a program of the National Park Service that began in July, 2008.
Pei-Yuan Wei (魏培源) – creator of ViolaWWW; Wen-mei Hwu – professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign specializing in compiler design, computer architecture, computer microarchitecture, and parallel processing; Andrew Yao (姚期智) – 2000 Turing Award recipient, Yao's principle, former professor at Princeton University