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.

Designed by I. M. Pei, the building is high with two masts reaching high.

Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect I. M. Pei, the building is high with two masts reaching high.

Le Corbusier visited MIT in, an occasion which powerfully affected Pei: " The two days with Le Corbusier, or ' Corbu ' as we used to call him, were probably the most important days in my architectural education.

Pei attempted to meet renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, but gave up after waiting for two hours.

Pei received his master's degree in 1946, and taught at Harvard for another two years.

They took on the Kips Bay residential area on the east side of Manhattan, where Pei set up Kips Bay Towers, two large long towers of apartments with recessed windows ( to provide shade and privacy ) in a neat grid, adorned with rows of trees.

Eventually, Kennedy chose Pei to design the library, based on two considerations.

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 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.

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

Pei also worked at this time on two projects for a new Japanese religious movement called Shinji Shumeikai.

In contrast, the design of the East Building by architect I. M. Pei is rigorously geometrical, dividing the trapezoidal shape of the site into two triangles: one isosceles and the other a smaller right triangle.

What is known of Huángbò ’ s teachings comes from two texts, the Ch ’ uan-hsin Fa-yao ( Essential of Mind Transmission ) and the Wan-ling Lu ( Record of Wan-ling: Japanese: Enryōroku ) written by Huángbò ’ s student, Pei Xiu.

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.

Excavations led by Pei in 1966 unearthed a premolar and two pieces of skull fragment, these were discovered to match fragments retained from previous excavations in 1934 and 1936, and the only extant example of a nearly complete skullcap was pieced together.

As a young backbencher, Evans was one of the two parliamentarians chosen to sit – along with international architects I. M. Pei and John Andrews – on the Parliament House Competition Assessment Panel which in 1979 chose the winning design for the new Australian Parliament House.

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 ).

Designed by Ieoh Ming Pei, the 70-storey building's height is 315 meters with two masts reaching 369 meters.

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.

The two carriageways join as the highway terminates and leads into Cheung Pei Shan Road, with slip roads connecting with Tsuen Wan Road and Castle Peak Road ( Tsuen Wan Section ).

His facility with languages was in demand in World War II, and Pei served as a language consultant with two agencies of the Department of War.

Many officials intended to make Yuan Tan the successor according to seniority of the heirs but Shen Pei and Pang Ji, two influential advisors, supported Yuan Shang and pushed for him to succeed Yuan Shao.

Li Linfu also used this case to have two other officials friendly with Liu, Li Yong ( 李邕 ) and Pei Dunfu ( 裴敦復 ), executed by caning.

There are two small islands, known as Kau Pei Chau ( 狗髀洲 ), in the southern vicinity of the cape.

The years of conflict and compromise had changed the nature of the design, and Pei felt that the final result lacked its original passion.

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.

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.

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.

Around the new year 733, Emperor Xuanzong removed then-chancellors Xiao Song and Han Xiu from their chancellor positions, and named Pei Yaoqing and Zhang to replace them — ordering Zhang to end his period of mourning, which was to last for three years, early, making him Zhongshu Shilang but with the chancellor de facto designation of Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhanshi ( 同中書門下平章事 ).

In 1860, an Anglo-French force gathered at Hong Kong and then carried out a landing at Pei Tang on August 1, and a successful assault on the Taku Forts on August 21 after which Hospital Apprentice A. Fitzgibbon of the Indian Medical Establishment became the youngest recipient of the Victoria Cross at the age of 15 years and 3 months ..

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

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.

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.

The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity is housed in an 11-story structure originally built for The Christian Science Publishing Society constructed between 1932 and 1934, and the present plaza was constructed in the late 1960s and early 1970s to include a 28 story administration building, a colonnade, and a reflecting pool with fountain, designed by Araldo Cossutta of I. M. Pei and Partners ( now Pei Cobb Freed ).

At the age of ten, Pei moved with his family to Shanghai after his father was promoted.

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

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.

Pei also drew inspiration from the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings of the Ancient Pueblo Peoples ; he wanted the buildings to exist in harmony with their natural surroundings.

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

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

" Ultimately, however, Kennedy made her choice based on her personal connection with Pei.

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.

Although it was a difficult time for everyone involved, Pei later reflected with patience on the experience.

After surveying a number of different locations, Pei fell in love with a valley once used as an imperial garden and hunting preserve, known as Fragrant Hills.

The problems continued for months, until Pei had an uncharacteristically emotional moment during a meeting with Chinese officials.