OCBC Centre
Singapore
1976
Pyramide du Louvre
Paris
1989
Ieoh Ming Pei
Ieoh Ming Pei, commonly known as I. M. Pei, was a renowned Chinese-American architect born in Guangzhou in April 1917. In 1935, he moved to the United States where he studied architecture first at the University of Pennsylvania and later at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1955, he founded his own architectural firm, I. M. Pei & Associates. Pei gained international acclaim for his designs and was awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 1983. Over his prolific career, he designed numerous iconic buildings, including the Louvre Pyramid in Paris and the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong. I. M. Pei passed away in New York in 2019, at the age of 102.