Assignment 02

1. I.M. Pei. Sources: Profile in American Architecture by: Carter Wiseman, I.M. PEI. Mandarin of Modernism


I.M. Pei is a Chinese-American Architect who is well renowned the modernism he uses in his work. He was originally born in Canton China and was raised in Hong Kong and Shanghai. His family is also well renowned in China because his ancestry in Suzhou dates back around 600 years. When he first moved to the United States his original intentions as a career were becoming an architect, but he switched to engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Though he wasn’t too keen on the arithmetic but more of the aesthetic aspect of design he switched back to Architecture. After his academic achievements at MIT he joined the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he expanded his knowledge further. Some of his most notable works are the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, The renovation of the Louvre, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame