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...Pei was born in China and immigrated to the United States at the age of 17. The architect received his master's degree from Harvard and served as an assistant professor at the School of Design from 1945-1948 before founding the New York City architectural firm of Pei, Cobb, Freed and Partners. Harvard granted him an honorary degree at commencement ceremonies...
...Pei, a 1946 graduate of the Harvard School of Design, will receive the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Medal for his contributions to the city of New York in the field of architecture...
Renowned for his simple sculptural forms and devotion to rigorous geometry, Pei is responsible for Le Grand Louvre in Paris and the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston...
Architect Pei also had to be persuaded before he would agree to design the building. Pei, 78, admits that he isn't a fan of rock 'n' roll. "I have been subjected--I guess that's the word--to that music by my children for years," he says. "So we have lots of records at home. But I never played them very much." Yet after Atlantic Records co-chairman Ahmet Ertegun and Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner took him on a trip to Graceland and New Orleans to learn more about rock, Pei got interested. (He now listens to some...
...building is a rousing success. It bursts forth from the ground into several assertive geometric forms--a triangle, a cylinder, a rectangular box. A trapezoidal chunk of the museum brazenly juts out over Lake Erie. "The music has that youthful energy," says Pei. "It has to come through in this building." The structure is painted mostly noncommittal white and gray; Pei says the neutral color scheme allows the objects and visitors within the museum to stand out in contrast...