This document provides biographical information about I.M. Pei, including his early life and education in Shanghai and the United States, his career as an architect focusing on museum and government building designs around the world, and some of his most notable projects such as the Louvre Pyramid in Paris and the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong. It also lists the schools he attended, the number of projects he completed in different regions, and some of the awards he received.

2. CONTENTS

3. EARLY LIFE

4. Lion Forest Garden
Pei describes the architecture of
Shanghai's Bund waterfront area
(seen here in a 2006 photo) as
"very much a colonial past"

5. EDUCATION
Saint Johns Middle
School, Shanghai
University of
Pennsylvania.
(1935)
Massachusetts
Institute of
Technology (MIT)
(1940)
Harvard's
Graduate School
of Design (GSD).
Studied under
Walter Grophius
(1942)
National Defense
Research
Committee
Pei returned to
Harvard in 1944
and completed his
Master in
Architecture in
1946

8. CAREER

10. DESIGN PHILOSOPHY

12. NUMBER OF COMPLETE PROJECTS
North America : 48 Europe : 4
Middle East : 1 Asia : 11

13. LIST OF
PROJECTS

14. LOUVRE PYRAMID, PARIS, FRANCE

16. MUSEUM OF ISLAMIC ART, DOHA, QATAR

18. BANK OF CHINA TOWER, HONG KONG

20. MUDAM MUSEUM,LUXEMBORG

21. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum

22. SUZHOUMUSEUM, CHINA

23. AWARDS