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Pei and felt
Pei was more intrigued by modern architecture, and also felt intimidated by the high level of drafting proficiency shown by other students.
The years of conflict and compromise had changed the nature of the design, and Pei felt that the final result lacked its original passion.
The New York Times called it " a fine building ", but Pei was among those who felt disappointed with the results.

Pei and design
Pei spent ten years working with New York real estate magnate William Zeckendorf before establishing his own independent design firm that eventually became Pei Cobb Freed & Partners.
Once he arrived, however, the dean of the architecture school commented on his eye for design and convinced Pei to return to his original major.
Pei returned to Harvard in the autumn of 1945, and received a position as assistant professor of design.
In the spring of 1948 Pei was recruited by New York real estate magnate William Zeckendorf to join a staff of architects for his firm of Webb and Knapp to design buildings around the country.
Pei was commissioned to design the Luce Memorial Chapel in Taiwan by the same organization that ran the middle school he had attended in Shanghai.
Pei designed the Society Hill Towers, a three-building residential block injecting cubist design into the 18th-century milieu of the neighborhood.
Pei was able to return to hands-on design when he was approached in 1961 by Walter Orr Roberts to design the new Mesa Laboratory for the National Center for Atmospheric Research outside Boulder, Colorado.
Eventually, Kennedy chose Pei to design the library, based on two considerations.
By the mid-70s, Pei tried proposing a new design, but the library's opponents resisted every effort.
It is the informal name for two related commissions by Pei – namely the Central Business District General Neighborhood Renewal Plan ( design completed 1964 ) and the Central Business District Project I-A Development Plan ( design completed 1966 ).
Pei wanted his design for Dallas City Hall to " convey an image of the people ".
Working with his associate Theodore Musho, Pei developed a design centered on a building with a top much wider than the bottom ; the facade leans at an angle of 34 degrees.
John Hancock Insurance chairman Robert Slater hired I. M. Pei & Partners to design a building that could overshadow the Prudential Tower, erected by their rival.
Pei was surprised by public resistance to his traditional design of the hotel at Fragrant Hills.
After visiting his ancestral home in Suzhou, Pei created a design based on the simple but nuanced techniques of traditional residential Chinese buildings.
Pei estimated that 90 percent of Parisians opposed his design.
One of the projects took Pei back to Dallas, Texas, to design the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center.
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.
Some influential advocates of feng shui in Hong Kong and China criticized the design, and Pei and government officials responded with token adjustments.
In 1995 Pei was hired to design an extension to the Deutsches Historisches Museum, or German Historical Museum in Berlin.

Pei and for
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 ).
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 has won a wide variety of prizes and awards in the field of architecture, including the AIA Gold Medal in 1979, the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture in 1989, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in 2003.
As a boy, Pei was very close to his mother, a devout Buddhist who was recognized for her skills as a flautist.
Pei attempted to meet renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, but gave up after waiting for two hours.
Pei received his master's degree in 1946, and taught at Harvard for another two years.
William Zeckendorf ( shown here in the office redesigned by his architectural team ) hired Pei after ordering a search for what he called " the greatest unknown architect in the country ".
Pei found Zeckendorf's personality the opposite of his own ; his new boss was known for his loud speech and gruff demeanor.
Pei finally saw his architecture come to life in 1950, when he designed a corporate building for Gulf Oil in Atlanta, Georgia.
Soon Pei was so inundated with projects that he asked Zeckendorf for assistants, which he chose from his associates at the GSD, including Henry N. Cobb and Ulrich Franzen.
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 involved himself in the construction process at Kips Bay, even inspecting the bags of concrete to check for consistency of color.
Pei, helped to set new standards for architecture in Canada in the 1960s ...
Although these projects were satisfying, Pei wanted to establish an independent name for himself.
Pei said he wanted the Mesa Laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research to look " as if it were carved out of the mountain ".
The conceptualization stages were important for Pei, presenting a need and an opportunity to break from the Bauhaus tradition.
" Perhaps the most important consequence of the Kennedy project for Pei was his elevation in the public's consciousness as an architect of note.

Pei and Bank
From 1958 to 1963 Pei and Ray Affleck developed a key downton block of Montreal in a phased process that involved one of Pei's most admired structures in the commonwealth, the cruciform tower known as the Royal Bank Plaza ( Place Ville Marie ).
* Bank of China Tower and the Louvre Pyramid, by I. M. Pei
* Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong, designed by I. M. Pei, is completed.
* U. S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles, designed by architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, is completed.
In 1948, after the end of World War II, approximately 12 billion yuan of Central Bank of Manchou notes were redeemed by the Tung Pei Bank.
In 1948, after the end of World War II, approximately 12 billion yuan of Central Bank of Manchou notes were redeemed by the Tung Pei Bank.
* Bank of America Tower entry on the Pei, Cobb, & Freed website.

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