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If you were a Greek tourist in the 1st century BCE you would likely have had something in your hand that would be qui...

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 China because of the outbreak of World War II, carried out various architectural contracts in Boston...

Download 2.55 MB You don't have to go far in Ireland to discover links with Australia. Jjust outside Galway, there's a big one. St Clerans was the family home of Robert O'Hara Burke, who led the famously doomed expedition with his colleague William Wills to try and cross Australia from south to north, dying outside Coopers Creek in 1861. The landscape of the outback couldn't be further from the misty green lushness that surrounds St Clerans. Its architect was Richard Morrison, a man whose reverence for Classicism is clear from the way he named his son Vitruvius, after the Roman architect whos...

By Dr. Suzie Kim CHINESE-born American architect I.M. Pei (leoh Ming Pei, 1917–2019) was one of the most acclaimed architects of the 20th and 21st centuries. Two years ago, on May 16, 2019, Pei passed away at the age of 102. In its obituary, the New York Times named him as the “Master Architect Whose Buildings Dazzled the World.” Pei understood how to convey the relationship between human and nature, modern and postmodern, and the old and new in his modern designs. Pei was awarded the 1983 Pritzker Architecture Prize for his iconic design of the East Building of the...

Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Landmark Study on Chinese Americans Reveals Historic Contributions, Yet Ongoing Challenges and ... Committee of 100February 8, 2021 GMT New York, NY, Feb. 08, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Committee of 100, a non-profit leadership organization of Chinese Americans in business, government, academia, healthcare, and the arts, today announced a landmark study on the historic contributions of Chinese Americans to the fabric of American society. The 142-page study, From Foundations to Frontiers: Chinese Amer...