Pei finally agreed that a reconstruction project was not only possible, but necessary for the future of the museum.

At a point in the planning phase when a financing gap existed, a proposal was made for the Rock Hall to be located in the then-vacant May Company Building, but it was finally decided that architect I. M. Pei would be commissioned to design a new building.

The middle plan was to spread false information that Liu Bei was returning to Jing Province, then lure Liu Zhang's generals Yang Huai and Gao Pei away from their positions, kill them and take over their castles and armies, and finally advance towards Chengdu.

Ieoh Ming Pei ( born April 26, 1917 ), commonly known as I. M. Pei, is a Chinese American architect, often called a master of modern architecture.

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.

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

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

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.

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

She enrolled in the landscape architecture program at Harvard University, and Pei was thus introduced to members of the faculty at Harvard's Graduate School of Design ( GSD ).

Their iconoclastic focus on modern architecture appealed to Pei, and he worked closely with both men.

These projects helped Pei conceptualize architecture as part of the larger urban geography.

Pei, helped to set new standards for architecture in Canada in the 1960s ...

In 1978, after giving a series of lectures of architecture in China, Pei was asked to imagine a project for his home country.

Pei also found the pyramid shape best suited for stable transparency, and considered it " most compatible with the architecture of the Louvre, especially with the faceted planes of its roofs ".

The opening of the Louvre Pyramid coincided with four other projects on which Pei had been working, prompting architecture critic Paul Goldberger to declare 1989 " the year of Pei " in The New York Times.

" The prize was accompanied by a US $ 100, 000 award, which Pei used to create a scholarship for Chinese students to study architecture in the US, on the condition that they return to China to work.

" Because the music performed in the hall was likely to be from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Pei was unwilling to impose modern styles of architecture on the interior.

He taught at Harvard's architecture school, working with students such as Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolph and I. M. Pei who later became well-known U. S. architects.

Place Ville Marie was one of the first designs of Henry N. Cobb and I. M. Pei, who was later to become a famous master of Modernist architecture.

Designed by world-renowned architects, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, the school's architectural beauty combines Western architecture with the subtlety of Chinese beauty and grace.

She was working in the architectural practice of IM Pei when Prince Gu, fresh out of MIT with architecture degree, joined the New York firm.

At the age of seventy-two, Pei had begun thinking about retirement, but continued working long hours to see his designs come to light.

The plan was risky, and Pei himself admitted that he did not completely know how it would come together.

Perhaps even more personally important for Pei was a new offer from the Chinese government, which had come in 1982.

Apparently the Pei ' an gods are real and Gringrin, attempting to ordain himself independently, asked for a creative spirit to come to him, but instead was chosen by Belion.

Pei said: " My father began living his own separate life pretty soon after that.

Pei was fascinated by the representations of college life in the films of Bing Crosby, which differed tremendously from the academic atmosphere in China.

Pei considers the John F. Kennedy Library " the most important commission " in his life.

Pei Songzhi's annotations provide a relatively clear, though still incomplete picture of Zhao's life.

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 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.

As with NCAR, Pei combined elements of cubism and natural harmony when designing the dormitories at New College of Florida in the mid-1960s.

Inspiration struck Pei in 1968, when he scrawled a rough diagram of two triangles on a scrap of paper.

Pei refers to his own " analytical approach " when explaining the lack of a " Pei School ".

The Song of the Great Wind was a song composed by Liu Bang in 195 BC when he visited his hometown of Pei County after suppressing Ying Bu's rebellion.

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.

Liu Song Dynasty compiler Pei Songzhi, when combining this account with Chen Shou's account in the Records of Three Kingdoms, argued that the Weilües account might be derived from hearsay or spies planted in an enemy state, and might not be reliable when compared to the account Chen Shou chose from Shu's folklore.

It was said that Liu Shan, then already several years old, was separated from Liu Bei when the latter was attacked by Cao Cao in Xiaopei ( 小沛 ; present-day Pei County, Jiangsu ) in 200.

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.

Washington Post critic Benjamin Forgey highly praised the Pei Cobb Freed design when it was first made public.

During his two years in the Far East, Commodore Tattnall violated American neutrality while commanding the chartered steamer Toey-Wan, when he came to the assistance of a British and French squadron under fire from the Taku Forts at the mouth of the Pei Ho or Hai River.

His term as abbot ended in 2005 when Venerable Hsin Pei was elected to succeed him.

Meanwhile, in spring 506, the general Wei Rui ( 韋叡 ) was able to capture Hefei ( 合肥, in modern Hefei, Anhui ), taken by Northern Wei when Pei Zhaoye surrendered Shouyang to Northern Wei.

In 661, when his older brother Li Xián the Prince of Pei had the literarilly-talented official Wang Bo on staff, the princes were apparently often engaged in cockfighting.

Wang Bo wrote a playful piece entitled the Declaration Against the Prince of Zhou's Cock ( 檄周王雞文 ), which, however, when Emperor Gaozong read it, caused Emperor Gaozong to be angry, as he believed this would cause discord between his sons, and therefore expelled Wang from the Pei mansion.

In the final scene when Lily Ho wanted to desert Pei Ti to pair off with the male hero, she was asked for a final kiss.

However, when the results were announced, the examinees that Duan and Li Shen recommended were not given passing results, while among those passing the examinations were Zheng Lang, the brother of the examination bureau ( 門下省, Menxia Sheng ) official Zheng Tan ; Pei Zhuan ( 裴譔 ) the son of the military governor Pei Du ( also a former chancellor ); Li Zongmin's son-in-law Su Chao ( 蘇巢 ); and Yang Rushi's brother Yang Yinshi ( 楊殷士 ).

He had friendly relationship with fellow chancellor Zhang Jiuling, and when another chancellor, Li Linfu, managed to convince Emperor Xuanzong that both Zhang and Pei were engaging in factionalism, both were removed, although Pei continued to serve in important positions in the imperial administration until his death in 743.