Pei was more intrigued by modern architecture, and also felt intimidated by the high level of drafting proficiency shown by other students.

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

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

Pei and his team also designed a united urban area for Washington, D. C., L ' Enfant Plaza ( named for French-American architect Pierre Charles L ' Enfant ).

Pei also drew inspiration from the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings of the Ancient Pueblo Peoples ; he wanted the buildings to exist in harmony with their natural surroundings.

Pei was also meticulous about the arrangement of items in the garden behind the hotel ; he even insisted on transporting of rocks from a location in southwest China to suit the natural aesthetic.

" The experience was exhausting for Pei, but also rewarding.

It was also the year in which Pei's firm changed its name to Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, to reflect the increasing stature and prominence of his associates.

The design that Pei developed for the Bank of China Tower was not only unique in appearance, but also sound enough to pass the city's rigorous standards for wind-resistance.

Pei also worked at this time on two projects for a new Japanese religious movement called Shinji Shumeikai.

Pei also oversaw specific decorative details, including a bench in the entrance lobby, carved from a 350-year-old keyaki tree.

Then they carried out a landing near at Beitang ( also spelled " Pei Tang "), some from the Taku Forts on 3 August, which they captured after three weeks on 21 August.

The play is also loosely based on news reports of the relationship between a French diplomat, Bernard Boursicot, and Shi Pei Pu, a male Chinese opera singer who purportedly convinced Boursicot that he was a woman throughout their twenty-year relationship.

According to the newspaper, the architect in charge will be chosen from among a shortlist of Spanish architects Santiago Calatrava and Pritzker Prize-winner Rafael Moneo, and Chinese-American Ieoh Ming Pei, also a Pritzker winner.

Liu Bei ( Wade-Giles spelling: Liu Pei ; ; 161 – 10 June 223 ), also known by his style name Liu Xuande ( Wade-Giles spelling: Liu Hsuan-te ), was a warlord, military general and later the founding emperor of the state of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history.

One day back in his hometown, a respectable man known as Lü Wen ( also called Lü Gong ), who had recently moved to Pei County, was visited by the most influential men in town.

What is also known is that during Chu – Han Contention, when Liu Bang fought a five-year war with Xiang Yu for supremacy over the Chinese world, his mother, his sister, and he did not initially follow his father to the Principality of Han ( modern Sichuan, Chongqing, and southern Shaanxi ); rather, they stayed in his father's home territory, perhaps in his home town of Pei ( 沛縣, in modern Xuzhou, Jiangsu ) deep in Xiang's Principality of Western Chu, presumably with his grandfather Liu Zhijia.

According to Kuodizhi ( 括地志 ), written during the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Liang's tomb was 65 li east of Pei County, near Liucheng, where a Zhang Liang Temple was also located.

The MIT Media Lab was founded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte and former MIT President Jerome Wiesner and opened its doors in the Wiesner Building ( designed by I. M. Pei ) ( also known as the E15 building ) at MIT in 1985.

Pei and Tadao Ando also have designed notable Brutalist works.

Some of the descriptions of and names for the locations of poetic occasions on his estate can be seen to be directly influential on the forty poems of the Wangchuan ji ( also known as the Wang or Wheel River Collection ) written by Wang Wei and Pei Di, in regards to Wang Wei's Tang Dynasty retirement estate at Lantian, south of the contemporary capital Chang ' an ( modern Xi ' an in Shaanxi province ).

He also noted that Pei himself fiercely fought construction of the Forrestal Building, knowing that it would severely compromise the Promenade's view of the National Mall.

At Li Shimin's urging, Pei Ji, who had also earlier, against regulations, allowed Li Yuan to have sexual relations with some of late Emperor Wen's imperial concubines, persuaded Li Yuan that it was necessary for him to rebel.

Mario Pei was also an internationalist who advocated the introduction of Esperanto into school curricula across the world to supplement local languages.

As a child, Pei found the Lion Grove Garden | Shizilin Garden in Suzhou to be " an ideal playground ".

Pei found Zeckendorf's personality the opposite of his own ; his new boss was known for his loud speech and gruff demeanor.

Nevertheless, they became good friends and Pei found the experience personally enriching.

As the opening neared, however, Pei found the hotel still needed work.

When designing the exterior, Pei borrowed from the tradition of Japanese temples, particularly those found in nearby Kyoto.

Jobs found office space in Palo Alto on 3475 Deer Creek Road, occupying a glass and concrete building which featured a staircase designed by architect I. M. Pei.

The Liu Song Dynasty historian Pei Songzhi, when compiling his annotated version of the Records of the Three Kingdoms, found Xi Zaochi's work unreliable at times.

Pei does not specifically comment on Meng Huo's historicity, but points out elsewhere that Xi writes history not found in earlier records, hence the Yunnan historian Fang Guoyu ( 方国瑜 ) uses Pei's doubts on Xi's unreliability to challenge the story of Meng Huo's seven captures ( though Fang does not go as far as to doubt Meng Huo's existence ).

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In the early 1980s, Pei was the focus of controversy when he designed a glass-and-steel pyramid for the Louvre museum in Paris.

Pei decided that a pyramid was " most compatible " with the other structures at the Louvre, complementing their roofs ' faceted planes.

In an attempt to soothe public ire, Pei took a suggestion from then-mayor of Paris Jacques Chirac and placed a full-sized cable model of the pyramid in the courtyard.

Using a glass wall for the entrance, similar in appearance to his Louvre pyramid, Pei coated the exterior of the main building in white metal, and placed a large cylinder on a narrow perch to serve as a performance space.

Architect I. M. Pei was awarded the project and proposed a glass pyramid to stand over a new entrance in the main court, the Cour Napoléon.

Pei ’ s glass pyramid in 1989.

Pei came up with the idea of a tower with a glass pyramid protruding from it.

In 1989, a modern, geometric, glass-and-steel pyramid structure by I. M. Pei was erected in the courtyard plaza of the Louvre.