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

Pei involved himself in the construction process at Kips Bay, even inspecting the bags of concrete to check for consistency of color.

Although these projects were satisfying, Pei wanted to establish an independent name for himself.

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

The staff had begun to shrink, and Pei wanted to dedicate himself to smaller projects allowing for more creativity.

At the same time, Pei himself rejects simple dichotomies of architectural trends.

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.

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.

He therefore personally selected all of the officials, but as he could not have actually known all of the candidates for official positions himself, he trusted the recommendations of Pei Yanling ( who died in 796 ) and such other officials that he trusted, including Li Qiyun ( 李齊運 ), Wang Shao ( 王紹 ), Li Shi ( 李實 ), Wei Zhiyi, and Wei Qumou ( 韋渠牟 ).

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 ".

In Bo Yang's Modern Chinese Edition of Sima Guang's Zizhi Tongjian, for example, Bo cited seven different and discordant views of Jiang's career — ranging from ringing endorsements of his recklessness and loyalty for the sake of Shu ( Pei Songzhi ( 裴松之 ), commentator to the Records of Three Kingdoms ) to criticism of his constant draining campaigns ( Chen Shou, author of Records of Three Kingdoms ) to outright condemnation ( Sun Sheng ( 孫盛 ), author of the Spring and Autumn Annals of Jin ), each of which could be considered a potentially valid view of his complicated character.

The magistrate of Pei County considered rebelling as well, so at the advice of Xiao He and Cao Shen, he sent Fan Kuai ( Liu Bang's relative ) to invite Liu Bang and his followers back to Pei to support him.

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.

Various classes of vessels are known of under names such as " Flying Cloud " and " Green Dragon Warship ", and according to Pei Songzhi's annotations, a ship carrying 80 horses was considered to be small.

The magistrate of Pei County considered rebelling as well, so he heeded Xiao He and Cao Shen's advice to invite Liu Bang back to support him.

Emperor Gaozu seriously considered burning Chang ' an to the ground and moving the capital to Fancheng ( 樊城, in modern Xiangfan, Hubei ), a suggestion that Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji, and the chancellor Pei Ji agreed with.

Estimates concerning the Chou Pei Suan Ching, generally considered to be the oldest of the mathematical classics, differ by almost a thousand years.

The imperial scholar Pei Zong ( 裴總 ) believed that that was inappropriate, pointing out that Du came out of the period of mourning to take an office and thus, in Pei's opinion, could not be considered sufficiently filially pious.

Emperor Xuanzong considered going to the eastern capital Luoyang, to decrease the need to requisition food supplies, and he summoned Pei to discuss with him.

Later that year, Pei was made Shizhong ( 侍中 ), the head of the examination bureau and a post considered one for a chancellor.

" Perhaps the most important consequence of the Kennedy project for Pei was his elevation in the public's consciousness as an architect of note.

While Pei and Musho were coordinating the Dallas project, their associate Henry Cobb had taken the helm for a commission in Boston.

Pei took to the project with vigor, and set to work with two young architects he had recently recruited to the firm, William Pedersen and Yann Weymouth.

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

As the Fragrant Hill project was nearing completion, Pei began working on the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, although his associate James Freed served as lead designer.

During the inauguration ceremonies, however, neither Freed nor Pei was recognized for their role in the project.

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

Pei had difficulty working with German government officials on the project ; their utilitarian approach clashed with his passion for aesthetics.

Although it was originally planned for the corniche road along Doha Bay, Pei convinced project coordinators to build a new island to provide the needed 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.

Reynolds worked with choreographer Bill T. Jones, clarinetist Anthony Burr, and percussionist Steven Schick on the project, along with audio software designers Pei Xiang and Peter Otto, and visual rendering artists Paul Kaiser, Shelley Eshkar, and Marc Downie.

Although Pei Cobb Freed agreed to investigate design changes to make the project less costly, at least one member of Congress declared the project dead.

He further commissioned the official Pei Zheng ( 裴政 ) to carry out a project of simplifying the penal code and decrease the penalty from the harsh laws — a reform that was later largely accepted by the succeeding dynasties.

Pei's ancestors ' success meant that the family lived in the upper echelons of society, but Pei said his father was " not cultivated in the ways of the arts ".

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.

Pei said of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center: " The complications exceeded even my expectations.

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

Pei was disappointed with the alterations, but remained involved in the building process even during construction.

Pei Yaoqing was said to be intelligent well-learned even in childhood, being able to read complex text when he was only a few years old.

Their commanders Sima Dekan ( 司馬德勘 ), Yuan Li ( 元禮 ), and Pei Qiantong ( 裴虔通 ), worried that Emperor Yang would punish them, began considering rebelling and taking the Xiaoguo Army north themselves instead.

Zeckendorf was well connected politically, and Pei enjoyed learning about the social world of New York's city planners.

Jonsson, a co-founder of Texas Instruments, learned about Pei from his associate Cecil Howard Green, who had recruited the architect for MIT's Earth Sciences building.

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

When they finished, Pei spoke with his father at length about the proposal.

The combination of off-centered wraparounds and angled walls was, Pei said, designed to provide " a sense of tumultuous youthful energy, rebelling, flailing about ".

According to Pei Te Hurinui Jones, the Tainui historian, Tainui first entered the Waikato about 1400 bringing with them kumara plants.

Barbara Goldsmith was a Founding Editor of New York magazine and the author of the widely-imitated series, “ The Creative Environment ,” in which she interviewed such subjects as Marcel Breuer, I. M. Pei, George Balanchine, and Pablo Picasso about their creative process.

Two more cousins, Hsu Chien and Ah Pei, go to Hsiao Mi's house to ask about their brothers.

The Yarlung Tsangpo ( Tibetan name for the upper course of the Brahmaputra ) originates near Mount Kailash and running east for about 1700 km drains a northern section of the Himalayas before its enters the gorge near downstream of Pei, Tibet near the settlement of Zhibe.

Its waters drop from about 2, 900 m near Pei to about 1, 500 m at the end of the Upper Gorge where the Po Tsangpo River enters.

Shi Xiu discovers Yang Xiong's wife, Pan Qiaoyun, having affair with a monk called Pei Ruhai and he informs Yang about the incident.

Indeed, hearing about Pei's tour, Eastern Tujue and Shiwei forces launched a raid against him, but by the time that they arrived, Pei had already returned to Tang territory.

Types of koothu includes Nattu Koothu, Kuravai Koothu, and Valli Koorhu, which are of about the state and culture of different peoples in Tamil country ; Samaya Koothu showcasing religious topics, Porkaala Koothu, Pei Koothu, Thunangai Koothu about martial arts and war of the country.