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MIT's architecture faculty was also focused on the Beaux-Arts school, and Pei found himself uninspired by the work.

In the library he found three books by the Swiss-French architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier.

Pei was inspired by the innovative designs of the new International style, characterized by simplified form and the use of glass and steel materials.

Le Corbusier visited MIT in, an occasion which powerfully affected Pei: " The two days with Le Corbusier, or ' Corbu ' as we used to call him, were probably the most important days in my architectural education.

" Pei was also influenced by the work of US architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

In 1938 he drove to Spring Green, Wisconsin, to visit Wright's famous Taliesin building.

After waiting for two hours, however, he left without meeting Wright.