Ieoh Ming Pei (April 26, 1917 - May 16, 2019), male, was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, and his ancestral home is Suzhou, Jiangsu. He is a Chinese-American architect after a prominent family in Suzhou.

Pei went to the United States in the 1930s and studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.

The American architectural community declared 1979 as the "Year of I.M. Pei". He won the 1979 American Architectural Institute Gold Medal, the 1981 French Architecture Gold Medal, the 1989 Japanese Emperor's Prize, the 1983 Fifth Pritzker Prize and the 1986 Reagan Prize.

The Medal of Freedom awarded by the President, etc., and he is known as "the last master of modern architecture."

Representative works of I.M. Pei: 1. Xiangshan Hotel Xiangshan Hotel is a four-star hotel designed by the internationally renowned Chinese-American architect Mr. I.M. Pei, which integrates Chinese classical architectural art, garden art, and environmental art.

The hotel is located in Xiangshan Park in Beijing's Xishan Scenic Area. It is surrounded by natural beauty and has different scenery in four seasons.

2. Suzhou Museum In 1999, the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government invited world-class Chinese architect I.M. Pei to design the new Suzhou Museum.

On October 6, 2006, the new Suzhou Museum was completed and officially opened to the public.

The new museum covers an area of ??about 10,700 square meters, with a construction area of ??more than 19,000 square meters. It is a comprehensive museum integrating modern buildings, ancient buildings and innovative landscape gardens.

3. Museum of Islamic Art In 2009, I.M. Pei also participated in the design of the Museum of Islamic Art.

Pei went to Egypt and other countries in the Middle East to find the best expression of Islamic culture. He found that whether it was the Islamic buildings in Damascus, Syria, or the buildings in Turkey, there were traces of other religions and they were no longer pure.

Islamic expression.

Extended information The characteristics of the works designed by I.M. Pei are: 1. Light is the color of the building. "Let the light do the design" is Pei's famous saying.

The combination of light and space in his works makes the space ever-changing. For example, the entrance to the Louvre Pyramid in Paris introduces a large amount of light into the lifeless museum, allowing the past history to bask in today's sunshine.

2. Make good use of the properties of glass.

Natural light pours into the interior through the transparent glass material, bringing warmth and agility to everything indoors. The mesh steel not only plays a supporting and carrying role.

3. Beis focuses on the research of concrete, explores its stress characteristics and visual expression, integrates structure and decoration in architectural design, and is faithful to the texture expression of the material, thus pushing the application of concrete to a new level.

new heights.

4. Ieoh Ming Pei made immortal contributions to the development of the geometric composition of modernist architecture.

With his colorful architectural works, Pei showed people that modernism is still dynamic. It is by no means a kind of mechanism, but can also present colorful artistic images.