Ieoh Ming Pei

Ieoh Ming Pei (English: Ieoh Ming Pei; signature: I. M. Pei; April 26, 1917 - May 16, 2019), a Chinese-American architect, winner of the 1983 Pritzker Prize, and is known as "the last master of high modernist architecture". Ieoh Ming Pei is a descendant of a prominent family in Suzhou. He was born in Panyu County, Guangdong Province, the Republic of China. His father Pei Zuyi was the president of the Central Bank of the Republic of China and one of the founders of the Bank of China. His biological mother, Zhuang, was the imperial eunuch of the Qing Dynasty. After drinking, Bei died of cancer when she was 13 years old; her stepmother, Jiang Shiyun, was the daughter of Jiang Lufu, the envoy of the Republic of China; Bei had an older sister, two younger brothers, and two younger sisters; his wife, Eileen Lu, Loo is a Chinese student studying in the United States. After marriage, he has three sons and one daughter. Among them, Chien Chung Pei and Li Chung Pei are both famous American architects; his cousin Peggy Lam was a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council and the chairman of the Wan Chai District Council. I.M. Pei's works are mainly public buildings and cultural and educational buildings, which are classified as modernist buildings and make good use of steel, concrete, glass and stone. His representative works include the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Louvre Museum expansion project in Paris, France, the Bank of China Building in Hong Kong, the Republic of China Pavilion at the 1970 Japan World Expo, the Lucien Church of Tunghai University (co-designed with Chen Qikuan and executed by Chen Qikuan), the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, and the Chinese Embassy in the United States. In the early morning of May 16, 2019, Ieoh Ming Pei passed away at his home in Manhattan, New York, at the age of 102. Pei devoted his life to architectural design and was still creating works until he was eighty years old. His last work was the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.