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I. M. Pei
Ieoh Ming Pei – website of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners ( ; ; April 26, 1917 – May 16, 2019) was a Chinese-American architect. Born in Guangzhou into a Chinese family, Pei drew inspiration at an early age from the garden villas at Suzhou, the traditional retreat of the scholar-gentry to which his family belonged. In 1935, he moved to the United States and enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania's architecture school, but quickly transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unhappy with the focus on Beaux-Arts architecture at both schools, he spent his free time researching emerging architects, especially Le Corbusier. After graduating, he joined the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and befriended the Bauhaus architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. In 1948, Pei was recruited by New York City real estate mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bei (surname)
Bei is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in simplified Chinese and in traditional Chinese. It is romanized Pei in Wade–Giles. Bei is listed 110th in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. It is not among the 300 most common surnames in China. Notable people * Bei Jinquan ( 贝锦泉; 1831–1890), Qing dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-spea ... general * Bei Shizhang (1903–2009), "Father of Chinese Biophysics" * I. M. Pei (Bei Yuming, 1917–2019), Chinese-American architect * Peggy Lam (Bei Yujia, born 1928), Hong Kong politician * Pui Kwan Kay (Bei Junqi; 貝鈞奇; born 1951), Hong Kong businessman * Bei Ling (貝嶺, born 1959), Chinese poet Fictional characters * Bei Weiwei, a character in Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
