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unusual facts about I.M. Pei



Aaron Betsky

Betsky has written numerous monographs on the work of late 20th century architects, including I.M. Pei, UN Studio, Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Inc., Zaha Hadid and MVRDV, as well as treatises on aesthetics, psychology and human sexuality as they pertain to aspects of architecture, and is one of the main contributors to a spatial interpretation of Queer theory.

Bal des débutantes

Some notable past participants include Ksénia Gorbachev, Barbara Berlusconi, Tamara and Petra Ecclestone, Vanessa and Victoria Traina, Anna Wallenberg, Princess Fawzia Latifa of Egypt, Karan Singh's granddaughter Adishree Singh, Wan Li's granddaughter Wan BaoBao and I.M. Pei's granddaughter Olivia Pei.

Buck Institute for Research on Aging

The campus of the Buck Institute was designed by architect I. M. Pei, who submitted an unsolicited proposal to design the research facility.

Church of Christ, Scientist

The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity is housed in an 11-story structure originally built for The Christian Science Publishing Society constructed between 1932 and 1934, and the present plaza was constructed in the late 1960s and early 1970s to include a 28 story administration building, a colonnade, and a reflecting pool with fountain, designed by Araldo Cossutta of I. M. Pei and Partners (now Pei Cobb Freed).

Fragrant Hills

There is also the Fragrant Hill Hotel, designed by I. M. Pei, which is more traditional than most of his designs.

Gabor Acs

He worked early in his career with the noted architect I. M. Pei, and was the chief architect for the Italian international real estate developer Società Generale Immobiliare (for whom he helped to successfully build the Watergate complex in the United States).

James Ingo Freed

In partnership with I.M. Pei, in their firm known as Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, he worked on major United States public buildings and museums.

List Visual Arts Center

The LVAC is housed in the Wiesner building, an I.M. Pei-designed, fully accessible facility that incorporates the work of painter Kenneth Noland, sculptor Scott Burton, and environmental sculptor Richard Fleischner, commissioned through MIT's Percent-for-Art program.

Luce Memorial Chapel

It was designed by the architect and artist Chen Chi-Kwan in collaboration with the firm of noted architect I. M. Pei, and named in honor of the Rev. Henry W. Luce, an American missionary in China in the late 19th century and father of publisher Henry Luce.

Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel Project

This change in ownership saw construction of the MCDVs modularized with sections of the vessels constructed at Irving Shipbuilding facilities in Georgetown, PEI and Shelburne, NS for later assembly in Halifax.

Martin Filler

From 1990 to 1994 he was also a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, where he wrote profiles on major figures in the arts including Lucian Freud, Roy Lichtenstein, Paul Mellon, I.M. Pei, Irving Penn, and Jacob Rothschild.

Peggy Lam

Peggy Lam Pei Yu-dja (林貝聿嘉) is the youngest niece of Pei Ieoh-ming (aka I. M. Pei), the world-renowned architect.

Piotr Kowalski

Working as an architect for I. M. Pei from 1952 until 1953, he joined Marcel Brauer as an architect at UNESCO in Paris.

Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

The court acts as a central linking point for the museum, somewhat like I. M. Pei's Louvre Pyramid in Paris.

Society Hill, Philadelphia

Architect I. M. Pei and his team designed a plan for three 31-story Society Hill Towers and low-rise buildings.

William P. Gottlieb

Architect I. M. Pei stated that "Steven Gottlieb transcends traditional architectural photography by interpreting architecture with the vision of a true artist."


see also

Suzhou Museum

The multi-year process of designing, building and inaugurating the new museum was chronicled in PBS's American Masters television documentary series in an 2010 episode entitled "I.M. Pei: Building China Modern".

William L. Slayton House

In 1948, he wanted to become the patron of "the greatest unknown architect in the country", so he consulted with Nelson Rockefeller and embarked on a search which ended in his hiring I.M. Pei, who was then an assistant professor at Harvard University.