Pei & Partners in 1966 and inġ989 became Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. Pei & Associates in 1955, which became I. In 1948, Pei was recruited to Webb and Knapp before establishing I. He received a Masters from Harvard in 1946. Graduating MIT in 1940, he joined the Harvard Graduate School of Design faculty inġ942. After waiting for two hours, however, he left without meeting Wright. To Wright's famous Taliesin complex in Wisconsin. were probably the most important days in my architectural education.' Pei was also influenced by the work of US architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Le Corbusier visited MIT in November 1935, an occasion which powerfully affected Pei: 'The two days with LeĬorbusier. Disliking theirīeaux-Arts focus, he transferred to MIT to study Modernism. M.) PEI, FAIA RIBA (1917-2019)īorn in Guangzhou and raised in Hong Kong and Shanghai in a wealthy family, in 1935 Pei moved to the United States and enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania's architecture school.
