The man who designed the East gallery.............is Chinese...........

Architect	I. M. Pei
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Works	Bank of China, at Hong Kong, 1982 to 1990.  * 3D Model * Christian Science Center, at Boston, Massachusetts, 1968 to 1974.  * 3D Model * East Wing, National Gallery, at Washington, D.C., 1974 to 1978.  * 3D Model * Everson Museum of Art, at Syracuse, New York, 1968. Hancock Place, at Boston, Massachusetts, 1977. Javits Convention Center, at New York, New York, 1979 to 1986.  * 3D Model * Johnson Museum of Art, at Ithaca, New York, 1973. National Center for Atmospheric Research, at Boulder, Colorado, 1961 to 1967.  * 3D Model * Pyramide du Louvre, at Paris, France, 1989.  * 3D Model * Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, at Cleveland, Ohio, 1998.       map of works
Biography	Subscribers - login to skip ads I. M. Pei(b. Canton, China 1917) Ieoh Ming Pei was born in Canton, China in 1917. He left China in 1935 when he was seventeen or eighteen to study architecture at MIT and Harvard. Between 1942 and 1945, he worked as a concrete designer for Stone and Webster, and in 1946 he began work in the office of Hugh Asher Stubbins, in Boston. Pei worked as an instructor and then as an assistant professor at Harvard before he joined Webb & Knapp Inc. in New York in 1948. Pei worked as the head of the architectural division of Webb and Knapp, Inc. until 1960, when he resigned and founded his own architectural office, I. M. Pei & Partners, New York, which in 1979 became Pei, Cobb, Freed & Partners. Due to his reliance on abstract form and materials such as stone, concrete, glass, and steel, Pei has been considered a disciple of Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, both of whom he studied with at Harvard. However, Pei's work does not suggest his primary concern is theory. He does not believe that architecture must find forms to express the times or that it should remain isolated from commercial forces. After building largely in concrete for many years, more recently Pei designed many sophisticated glass-clad buildings loosely related to the high-tech movement. However, many of his designs result from original design concepts. He frequently works on a large scale and is renowned for his sharp, geometric designs. References Dennis Sharp. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Quatro Publishing, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. NA40.I45. p119-120. Adolf K Placzek. Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects. Vol. 3. London: The Free Press, 1982. ISBN 0-02-925000-5. NA40.M25. p384-385. Details AIA Architecture Firm Award, 1968 AIA Gold Medal, 1979. Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1983. RIBA Gold Medal, 2010