He designed the glass pyramid of the Louvre. Farewell to Ieoh Ming Pei

Thearchitect who designed the glass pyramid of the Musée du Louvre, Ieoh Ming Pei, passes away at the age of 102.

He was one of the last masters ofmodernist architecture, had won the Pritzker Prize in 1983, and in 1992 former President George H.W.Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Born in Canton, China, on April 26, 1917, the celebrated architect passed away in the night in New York City. However, he became a U.S. citizen in 1954, for at the age of eighteen he moved to the United States, where he received his bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his master’s degree in architecture from Harvard. Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer were his teachers.

In addition to the famous glass pyramid in the Louvre built in 1989, his projects include the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin, the Bank of China Tower, the East Wing of the National Gallery in Washington, the J.F. Kennedy Library in Boston, the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, the Miho Museum in Kyoto, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, and many other buildings around the world. In Italy he designed Palazzo Lombardia, or the new Pirellone in Milan. His architecture is characterized by the use of stone, concrete, glass and steel and a predilection for light.

He designed the glass pyramid of the Louvre. Farewell to Ieoh Ming Pei

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