{"id":4127,"date":"2017-05-06T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.architect-us.com\/blog\/?p=4127"},"modified":"2020-11-18T14:38:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T13:38:03","slug":"i-m-pei-celebrates-100th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.architect-us.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/i-m-pei-celebrates-100th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"I.M. Pei celebrates 100th birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chinese-American Architect Ieoh Ming Pei, commonly known as I.M.Pei turned 100 years old on April 26.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

A century of life that has earned him to be considered one of the most important and influential architect of the twentieh century<\/strong>, and widely honoured: he has been awarded with the\u00a0Praemium Imperiale<\/i><\/strong>\u00a0in 1989, the\u00a0AIA Gold Medal<\/strong>\u00a0ten years before, in 1979; the Presidential Medal of Freedom<\/strong> and, in 1983, he won the Pritzker Prize<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0He\u00a0didn’t forget his origins, with the money prize, $100,000, he established a scholarship fund for Chinese students to study in the United States<\/strong> with the condition that they returned to China to put in practice what they learned. That’s exactly the philosophy behind Architect-US Career Training Program<\/a>!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pei, FAIA and RIBA<\/a><\/strong>, has designed some of the most iconic buildings of the contemporary architecture<\/strong>. His most famous project is Le Grand Louvre<\/strong><\/a>, the\u00a0renovation of the Mus\u00e9e du Louvre in Paris, that the same week of Pei’s birthday received the AIA 2017 25 Year Award<\/a>. Although it\u00a0was very controversial and lots of Parisians despised the project at the beginning, the carachteristic steel and glass pyramids had become so famous and praised as the Eiffel Tower<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Louvre-Pei\"
Photograph by Flickr user Masoud Najari<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another famous buildings are the John F. Kennedy Library<\/strong><\/a> in Boston, the National Gallery of Art – East Building<\/strong><\/a> in Washington D.C. and the Museum of Islamic Art<\/strong><\/a> in Doha.<\/p>\n

\"IM-PEI-JFK-Library\"
Picture by Nathaniel Lieberman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"IM-PEI-East-Building\"
Photo by Ezra Stoller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"IM-PEI-Doha\"
Photo by Flickr User Jan Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Happy Birthday, Mr. Pei!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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