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I.M. Pei, Chinese-born American architect known for his large, elegantly designed urban buildings and complexes. Notable projects included the controversial glass pyramid (1989) at the Louvre in Paris and the offshore Museum of Islamic Art (2008) in Doha, Qatar. Pei was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1983.

I.M. Pei, in full Ieoh Ming Pei, (born April 26, 1917, Guangzhou, China—died May 16, 2019, New York, New York, U.S.), Chinese-born American architect noted for his large, elegantly designed urban buildings and complexes. Pei went to the United States in 1935, enrolling initially at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and then transferring to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, as a student of architectural engineering. He graduated in 1939 and, unable to return to ...

The fascinating stories behind some of the world's finest pieces of architecture – and three historical buildings you can still visit today

From left: Jerry Speyer, Rob Speyer, Bill Rudin, Peter Malkin and Anthony Malkin Seymour Durst and his brothers built six Manhattan buildings in a 12-year run. Paul and Seymour Milstein built 10 in about the same amount of time. And Lew and Jack Rudin built 11 in two decades. The breakneck pace of development — which was largely clustered in the 1960s and the 1980s — by those three families, and a slew of others, laid the foundation for many of New York City’s most established real estate...