Pei refers to the NCAR complex as his " breakout building ", and he remained friends with Roberts until the scientist died in.

For example, Wunsu ( Strong Arm Dumping Form or Dragon Boy Dumping Form ) uses the tiger form, Anaku refers to a swallow pivoting on a beach, Empisho ( First Elbow Form ) refers to the flying swallow, and Go Pei Sho refers to a tearing peacock.

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.

The younger Pei, drawn more to music and other cultural forms than to his father's domain of banking, explored art on his own.

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

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

During one lecture Pei urged the audience to search China's own traditions for architectural inspiration.

Pei compiled the teachings from his own notes and sent the manuscript to the senior monks on Mount Huangbo for further editing and emendation.

Supporters of Nationalist China openly slaughtered prisoners who refused to go to Taiwan, while Communist sympathizers hung one of their own in secret for betraying the identity of Commissar Pei to the Americans during an interrogation session.

Nevertheless, Emperor Yang was probably more interested in obtaining Japan's support in his campaigns against Goguryeo than in matters of decorum, and despite the insult, he sent his own envoy, Pei Shiqing ( 裴世清 ), back to Japan with Ono.

Lacking inspiration and unsure of how to approach the building, Pei took a weekend vacation to the family home in Katonah, New York.

Returning to the challenge of the East Building of the US National Gallery, Pei worked to combine a modernist approach with a classical main structure.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Mario Andrew Pei ( 1901 – 1978 ) was an Italian-American linguist and polyglot, who wrote a number of popular books known for their accessibility to readers who lack a professional background in linguistics.

Pei attended Saint Johns Middle School, run by Protestant missionaries.

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 ).

In 1964, supported by a gift from Samuel I. Newhouse, the Newhouse Communications Complex was officially inaugurated in Newhouse 1, an award-winning building designed by architect I. M. Pei, which housed the School of Journalism.

Primary schools in the area include Clementi Primary School, Nan Hua Primary School, Pei Tong Primary School and Qifa Primary School.

The area includes educational institutions such as Anglo-Chinese School ( Barker Road ), Singapore Chinese Girls ' School, Methodist Girls ' School, Hwa Chong Institution, National Junior College, Raffles Girls ' Primary School, Nanyang Primary School, Nanyang Girls ' High School, Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School, Saint Joseph's Institution and Ngee Ann Polytechnic amongst others.

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 Hwa Secondary School

Pei Tong Primary School ( Abbreviation: PTPS ; ) is a government primary school in Singapore.

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

Pei Tong Public School was founded in a village, known as Little Pandan, off Clementi Road.

Finally, City Developments Limited agreed to the transfer of the land with an area of and 800 square yards to Pei Tong Public School.

Pei Tong Public School moved into its new premises at 50, Sunset Grove on 28 August 1972.