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Pei and returned
A member of Pei's staff returned for a visit several years later and confirmed that it had become dilapidated, which he and Pei attributed to the country's general unfamiliarity with deluxe buildings.
She returned to Jinan in May 1931 and married Pei Minglun, the wealthy son of a businessman.
He was offered the post of Administrator of Dong Commandery ( 東郡 ), but he declined and returned to his home in Pei county.
In 1970, Pei and Cobb returned to the SUNY Fredonia campus to complete the Erie Dining Hall and the suite-style residence halls.
After the investigation was complete, it was concluded that there was no evidence that Yuan intended to assassinate Pei, but as a result, both Pei ( who by this point had returned to Chang ' an and was again serving as chancellor ) and Yuan were relieved of their chancellor posts, less than four months after Yuan was made chancellor.
After Li Dan, a former emperor, returned to the throne in 712 ( as Emperor Ruizong ), he made Pei Guozi Zhubu ( 國子主簿 ), the secretary general at the imperial university.
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.

Pei and Harvard
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 ).
Less than a month later, Pei suspended his work at Harvard to join the National Defense Research Committee, which coordinated scientific research into US weapons technology during World War II.
Pei received his master's degree in 1946, and taught at Harvard for another two years.
These events pained Pei, who had sent all three of his sons to Harvard, and although he rarely discussed his frustration, it was evident to his wife.
John F. Kennedy Library | John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on the Columbia Point ( Boston ) | Columbia Point peninsula ( 2007 ) In 1977, after an unsuccessful bid to have the John F. Kennedy Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts close to Harvard University, ground was broken at the tip of Columbia Point for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, designed by the architect I. M. Pei, and dedicated on October 20, 1979.

Pei and 1945
Happy died in 1945 and Pao Pei in 1954.

Pei and received
" Pei received his Bachelors of Architecture degree in 1940.
Pei was an ardent student of Chan and received teachings from Huángbò, eventually building a monastery for Huángbò around 846, which the master named Huang-po after the mountain where he had been a novice monk.
Pei received his doctorate from Columbia University in 1937, focusing on Sanskrit, Old Church Slavonic, and Old French.
The earliest version derives from the lost ( mid-3rd century ) Weilüe, quoted in Pei Songzhi's commentary to the ( 429 CE ) Records of Three Kingdoms: " the student at the imperial academy Jing Lu 景盧 received from Yicun 伊存, the envoy of the king of the Great Yuezhi oral instruction in ( a ) Buddhist sutra ( s ).
It was designed by noted architect I. M. Pei, who received his bachelor's degree from MIT in 1940.

Pei and position
As abbot of the Order, Hsin Pei is the second highest monastic in the order, and is second in line to the position of head teacher.
Emperor Muzong was displeased with Pei's accusations, but as Pei was a prominent statesman, placated Pei by demoting Wei to be the director of the imperial armory and Yuan to be the deputy minister of public works ( 工部侍郎, Gongbu Shilang ), relieving Yuan of his position as imperial scholar.
In 729, tired of the constant arguments between the chancellors Li Yuanhong and Du Xian, and Yuan's inabilities to moderate them, Emperor Xuanzong removed all three from chancellor positions, replacing them with Yuwen and Pei Guangting -- with Yuwen given the position of Huangmen Shilang ( 黃門侍郎 ), the deputy head of the examination bureau of government ( 門下省, Menxia Sheng ), and given the de facto chancellor designation of Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi ( 同中書門下平章事 ).

Pei and professor
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 ).

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.
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.
The years of conflict and compromise had changed the nature of the design, and Pei felt that the final result lacked its original passion.
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.
Pei felt that his design for the Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong | Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong needed to reflect " the aspirations of the Chinese people ".
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.

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