Pei spent two and a half years with the NDRC, but has revealed few details.

As one critic writes: " Pei has been aptly described as combining a classical sense of form with a contemporary mastery of method.

In the words of his biographer, Pei has won " every award of any consequence in his art ", including the Arnold Brunner Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters ( 1963 ), the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters ( 1979 ), the AIA Gold Medal ( 1979 ), the first Praemium Imperiale for Architecture from the Japan Art Association ( 1989 ), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, and the 2010 Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

In its citation, the jury said: " Ieoh Ming Pei has given this century some of its most beautiful interior spaces and exterior forms ... His versatility and skill in the use of materials approach the level of poetry.

This is quite similar to the numbering of mahjong tiles today, although mahjong only has three suits and, in effect, uses four packs of Ya Pei cards.

Due to the economic force of China and its growing wealth, there has been a recent influx of Chinese models scoring modeling successes in the fashion industry, including Sui He, Fei Fei Sun, Liu Wen, Ming Xi und Shu Pei Qin as the most-in-demand.

The Liu Bei ( Cantonese: Lau Pei ) lion is the eldest of the three brothers and has a yellow ( actually imperial yellow as he became the first emperor of the Shu-Han Kingdom ) based face with white beard and fur ( to denote his wisdom ).

Architect I. M. Pei has described the structure of the hall's interior as " very conservative ".

The Pei Wei chain of Chinese restaurants has a " Pei Wei Spicy " preparation ( which can be served with chicken or other types of meat and vegetables ).

The film has a notable theme song " Xin Dong ", performed by Shino Lin Xiao Pei.

It has affiliations with Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School, Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Primary School, Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School, Saint Andrew's Junior College, Ang Mo Kio Presbyterian Church and Bethel Presbyterian Church.

Pei and Partners ), Dallas will be the only city in the world that has four buildings within one contiguous block that are all designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize winners.

Pei Tong Primary School has been in Clementi since its establishment in 1948.

In recent years, Hsin Pei has reached new heights with his performances in the " Sounds of the Yellow River ", an album of Buddhist chanting recorded by the Fo Guang Shan monastic choir.

Kelly has since executed many public commissions, including Wright Curve ( 1966 ), a steel sculpture designed for permanent installation in the Guggenheim ’ s Peter B. Lewis Theater ; a mural for the UNESCO headquarters in Paris in 1969 ; Curve XXII ( I Will ) at Lincoln Park in Chicago in 1981 ; a 1985 commission by I. M. Pei for the Raffles City building in Singapore ; the Houston Triptych, vertical bronze planes mounted on a tall concrete at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in 1986 ; Totem ( 1987 ), a sculpture for the Parc de la Creueta del Coll, Barcelona ; the Dallas Panels ( Blue Green Black Red ) ( 1989 ) for the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas ; a 1989 sculpture for the headquarters of Nestlé in Vevey, Switzerland ; Gaul ( 1993 ), a monumental sculpture commissioned by the Institute d ' Art Contemporain, Nîmes, France ; a two-part memorial for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D. C., in 1993 ; and large-scale Berlin panels for the Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin, in 1998.

Soon, however, Pei and his team won the support of several key cultural icons, including the conductor Pierre Boulez and Claude Pompidou, widow of former French President Georges Pompidou, after whom another controversial museum was named.

Pei became a coach of the youth team in the Bayi Football Team in 1983 and won his first title in a national youth league in 1985.

During the first decade of the 2000s, Pei designed a variety of buildings, including the Suzhou Museum near his childhood home.

Yet within a little more than two years, in the winter of 1929, Pei Wenzhong, then the field director at Zhoukoudian, unearthed the first complete calvaria of Peking Man.

* Chinese archeologist Pei Wenzhong appointed field director of the continuing excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China.

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 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.

Pei finally saw his architecture come to life in 1950, when he designed a corporate building for Gulf Oil in Atlanta, Georgia.

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.

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.

After visiting museums in Europe and the United States, including the US National Gallery, he asked Pei to join the team.

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

Urban renewal projects in the 1970s, including the Pei Plan, removed many older historic structures but failed to spark much new development, leaving the city dotted with vacant lots used for parking.

Excavations at the site under the supervision of Chinese archaeologists Yang Zhongjian, Pei Wenzhong, and Jia Lanpo uncovered 200 human fossils ( including 6 nearly complete skullcaps ) from more than 40 individual specimens.

However, Liu Bang's family, including Lü Zhi and her children, remained in Pei County, which was a territory of Xiang Yu's kingdom of Western Chu.

Over the next few years, Cao Mao gradually established a circle of people around him, including Sima Zhao's cousin Sima Wang, Wang Shen ( 王沈 ), Pei Xiu, and Zhong Hui, all of whom were known for their literary talent.

However, as she grew increasingly unbridled in her behavior ( including committing adultery with many men and later murdering them to silence them ), Zhang, Pei, and Jia Mo considered deposing her and replacing her with Crown Prince Yu's mother Consort Xie, but they hesitated and never took actual action.

He then declared a coup against her and arrested her, slaughtering her clan and her associates ( including Zhang and Pei ).

Pe is the seventeenth letter in many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew Pei and Persian, Arabic ( in abjadi order ).

Some breeds appear to have an increased risk of mild cases as young dogs, including the Afghan Hound, American Staffordshire Terrier, Boston Terrier, Boxer, Chihuahua, Chow Chow, Shar Pei, Collie, Dalmatian, Doberman Pinscher, Bulldog, English Bull Terrier, Miniature Bull Terrier, German Shepherd Dog, Great Dane, Old English Sheepdog, American Pit Bull Terrier, West Highland White Terrier, Rat Terrier, and Pug.

Architect I. M. Pei developed the initial urban renewal plan and was responsible for the design of multiple buildings, including those comprising L ’ Enfant Plaza and two clusters of apartment buildings located on the north side of M St. SW ( initial termed Town Center Plaza ).

Pei, at the time a staff architect in his firm of Webb & Knapp, to provide the overall design of the plaza, promenade, and park ( including building siting ).

The issue was raised repeatedly, including by chancellors Wei Mo, Pei Xiu, and Cui Shenyou, but he rebuffed all of them, leading to Pei's resignation and Cui's removal.

239-265 CE Weilüe 魏略 " Brief account of the Wei dynasty " is no longer extant, but some sections ( including descriptions of the Roman Empire ) are quoted in the 429 CE San Guo Zhi commentary by Pei Songzhi 裴松之.

While working as a professor of Romance Philology at Columbia University, Pei wrote over 50 books, including the best-sellers The Story of Language ( 1949 ) and The Story of English ( 1952 ).

They were sent to Koje Island, southwest of Pusan, including the Division Commissar Pei Shan.

The coup participants also killed a number of high level officials and relatives of Emperor Yang, including Emperor Yang's brother Yang Xiu and his sons, son Yang Jian and his sons, grandson Yang Tan the Prince of Yan, Yu Shiji, Pei Yun, Lai Hu ' er, Yuan Chong ( 袁充 ), Yuwen Xie ( 宇文協 ), Yuwen Jiong ( 宇文皛 ), and Xiao Ju ( 蕭鉅 ) the Duke of Liang ( Empress Xiao's nephew ).

Influential members of the committee became interested in Louis Kahn at an early stage, but they interviewed several other prominent architects as well, including Paul Rudolph, I. M. Pei, Philip Johnson and Edward Larrabee Barnes.

The Wei brothers, along with a number of their associates — including the former chancellor Li Shizhi, Wei Bin ( 韋斌 ), Wei Jian's nephew Li Quan ( 李琄 ) the Prince of Xue, Pei Kuan ( 裴寬 ), and Li Qiwu ( 李齊物 ), were all demoted.