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.

Pei returned to Harvard in the autumn of 1945, and received a position as assistant professor of design.

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 ".

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.

) Innovations in bracing design have emerged, notably the A-brace developed by British luthier Roger Bucknall of Fylde Guitars.

Renwick and Bertelli had been in partnership some years and had developed an overhead-cam four-cylinder engine, using Renwick's patented combustion chamber design, and had tested it in an Enfield Allday chassis.

The three cup anemometer developed by the Canadian John Patterson in 1926 and subsequent cup improvements by Brevoort & Joiner of the USA in 1935 led to a cupwheel design which was linear and had an error of less than 3 % up to.

The design innovations commonly associated with Gropius and the Bauhaus — the radically simplified forms, the rationality and functionality, and the idea that mass-production was reconcilable with the individual artistic spirit — were already partly developed in Germany before the Bauhaus was founded.

The Burroughs Corporation developed three highly innovative architectures, based on the design philosophy of " language directed design ".

The most common type of brick kiln in use there are Bull's Trench Kiln ( BTK ), based on a design developed by British engineer W. Bull in the late 19th century.

Graphics and titles were developed by the Lambie-Nairn design agency and were gradually rolled out across the whole of BBC News, including a similar design for regional news starting with Newsroom South East and the three BBC Nations – Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Bombardier's technological breakthrough in the design of bush vehicles came in the mid-1930s when he developed a drive system that revolutionized travel in snow and swampy conditions.

The BeOS GUI was developed on the principles of clarity and a clean, uncluttered design.

The BeOS GUI was developed on the principles of clarity and a clean, uncluttered design.

The cylinder head design was known as the " May Fireball " head ; it was developed by a Swiss engineer Michael May.

Russian aircraft manufacturer Tupolev developed a version of its popular design Tu-154 with a cryogenic fuel system, known as the Tu-155.

In 1989, Autodesk, an American multinational corporation that focuses on 2D and 3D design software, developed a virtual design system called Cyberspace.

From 1859 a new design was developed for British clipper ships that was nothing like the American clippers.

Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed " Lynchian ", a style characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design.

In some versions of Doom II, both of these secret levels incorporate level design and characters from Dooms precursor, Wolfenstein 3D, which was also developed by id.

Two other groups contributed to the design of the language and developed implementations: Harlequin released a commercial IDE for Microsoft Windows and Carnegie Mellon University released an open source compiler for Unix systems.

Improving on the design of the 1712 Newcomen steam engine, the Watt steam engine, developed sporadically from 1763 to 1775, was a great step in the development of the steam engine.

Euphoria was conceived and developed with the following design goals and features:

The GPS project was developed in 1973 to overcome the limitations of previous navigation systems, integrating ideas from several predecessors, including a number of classified engineering design studies from the 1960s.

The design of GPS is based partly on similar ground-based radio-navigation systems, such as LORAN and the Decca Navigator developed in the early 1940s, and used during World War II.

Until the 18th century, however, no theoretical basis for soil design had been developed and the discipline was more of an art than a science, relying on past experience.