Pritzker Prize winners
Pritzker Prize winners
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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 81. Chapters: I. M. Pei, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Rem Koolhaas, Oscar Niemeyer, Jørn Utzon, Philip Johnson, Renzo Piano, Frank Gehry, Aldo Rossi, Robert Venturi, Richard Meier, Kevin Roche, Kenzo Tange, Jean Nouvel, Tadao Ando, Richard Rogers, Zaha Hadid, Peter Zumthor, Christian de Portzamparc, James Stirling, Glenn Murcutt, Luis Barragán, Herzog & de Meuron, Thom Mayne, Álvaro Siza Vieira, SANAA, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Gordon Bunshaft, Kazuyo Sejima, Fumihiko Maki, Rafael Moneo, Sverre Fehn, Ryue Nishizawa, Hans Hollein, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Tom Turner, Gottfried Böhm. Excerpt: Ieoh Ming Pei (born April 26, 1917), commonly known as I. M. Pei, is a Chinese American architect, often called a master of modern architecture. Born in Canton, China and raised in Hong Kong and Shanghai, Pei drew inspiration at an early age from the gardens at Suzhou. 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. He was unhappy with the focus at both schools on Beaux-Arts architecture, and spent his free time researching the emerging architects, especially Le Corbusier. After graduating, he joined the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and became friends with the Bauhaus architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer. In 1939, he married Eileen Loo, who had introduced him to the GSD community. They have been married for over seventy years, and have four children, including architects C.C. "Didi" Pei and L.C. "Sandi" Pei. Pei spent ten years working with New York real estate magnate William Zeckendorf before establishing his own independent design firm that eventually became Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. Among the early projects on which Pei took the lead were the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, DC and the Green Building at MIT. His first major recognition came with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado; his new stature led to his selection as chief architect for the John F. Kennedy Library in Massachusetts. He went on to design Dallas City Hall and the East Building of the National Gallery of Art. He returned to China for the first time in 1974 to design a hotel at Fragrant Hills, and designed a skyscraper in Hong Kong for the Bank of China fifteen years later. In the early 1980s, Pei was the focus of controversy when he designed a glass-and-steel pyramid for the Louvre museum in Paris. He later returned to the world of the arts by designing the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, the Miho Museum in Japa