I. M. Pei Net Worth

I.M. Pei was a Chinese-American architect born in 1917 in Guangzhou, China. He was known as the Master of Modern Architecture, and was inspired by the gardens of Suzhou. He was also controversial, particularly for his design of a glass-and-steel pyramid for the Musée du Louvre in Paris in the early 1980s.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Birth Day April 26, 1917
Birth Place Guangzhou, China
I. M. Pei age 103 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Taurus

💰 Net worth: $20 million

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About

Chinese-American Architect of sleek 20th century buildings; considered to be the Master of Modern Architecture who was inspired by the gardens of Suzhou. He was also controversial, especially after he designed a glass-and-steel pyramid for Paris' Musée du Louvre in the early 1980s.

Before Fame

He went to a school in Shanghai that allowed students only one-half of a day a month of free time. He studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design after relocating to the United States in 1935. He eschewed the fixation on Beaux-Arts architecture that the University of Pennsylvania and MIT possessed and began researching emerging Architects such as Le Corbusier. He became friends with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, both famed Bauhaus Architects.

Trivia

He founded I.M. Pei & Associates in 1955 after working for seven years under notable New York real estate magnate william Zeckendorf; his organization would become known as I.M. Pei & Partners in 1966, then Pei Cobb Freed & Partners in 1989.

Family Life

He and Eileen Loo were married in 1939; she was his introduction to the GSD community. He fathered four children with her, including Future Architects Chien Chung Pei and Li Chung Pei.

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He wanted to attend college in the United States after seeing how fun school could be from Bing Crosby films he had watched.