AN UNUSUAL ARCHITECT—LEOH MING PEI On this vivid planet, it appears colorful with azure blue seawater, lush green plants and many world famous buildings. Among these largest artificial articles in the world, many originated from the same architect—Ieoh Ming Pei. Ieoh Ming Pei, the 1983 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, is a founding partner of I. M. Pei & Partners based in New York City. He was born in China in 1917, the son of a prominent banker. He came to the United States in 1935 to study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B. Arch. 1940) and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (M. Arch. 1946). During World War Ⅱ, he served on the National defense Research Commission at Princeton, and from 1945 to 1948, taught at Harvard. In 1948 he accepted the newly created post of director of Architecture at Webb & Knapp, Inc., the real estate development firm, and this association resulted in major architectural and planning projects in Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburgh and other cities. In 1958, he formed the partnership of I. M. Pei & Associates, which became I. M. Pei & Parteners in 1966. The partnership received the 1968 Architectural Firm Award of The American Institute of Architects. Pei has designed over forty projects in this country and abroad, twenty of which have been award winners. His more prominent commissions have included the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D .C.; the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library near Boston; the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado; the Dallas City Hall in Texas; the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Centre (OCBC) and Raffles City in Singapore; the West Wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Fragrant Hill Hotel near Beijing, China, designed to graft advanced technology onto the roofs of indigenous building and thereby sow the seed of a new ,distinctly Chinese form of modern architecture; the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse , New York; and the Texas Commerce Tower in Houston. He has designed arts facilities and university buildings on the campuses of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Rochester, Cornell University, the Choate School, Syracuse University, New York University and the University of Hawaii. He has been selected to design the headquarters for the Bank of China in Hong Kong. Pei is currently a member of the National Council on the Arts, and previously served on the National Council on the Humanities. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (of which he served a term as Chancellor), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Design. He is a member of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institue of Technology. As a student, he was awarded the MIT Traveling Fellowship, and the Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship at Harvard. His subsequent honors include the following: the Brunner Award, the Medal of Honor of the New York Chapter of the AIA, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Medal for Architecture, the Gold Medal for Architecture of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Alpha Rho Chi Gold Medal, la Grande mé-daille d’Or de I’ Académie d’ Architecture (France), and The Gold Medal of The American Institute of Architects. In 1982, the deans of the architectural schools of the United Sates chose I. M. Pei as the best designer of significant non-residential structures. 在這個充滿活力的星上，蔚藍的海洋，蔥翠的樹木以及許多世界著名的建築使它變得多姿多彩。在這些世界上最大的人工作品中，有許多都出自同一位建築師之手——貝聿銘。 貝聿銘，1983年普里茨克爾建築獎的獲得者，是紐約貝聿銘股份公司的創建人之一。他1917年生於中國，其父是一位出色的銀行家。1935年他來到美國，在麻省理工學院（1940年獲建築學學士）和哈佛設計研究生院（1946年獲建築學碩士）學習建築。 第二次世界戰期間，他在國防研究委員會普林斯頓分部供職，1945年至1948年間，在哈佛任教。1948年他接受了一家房地產開發商韋布奈普有限公司新設立的建築部主任的職位，他對這家公司的加盟使得芝加哥、費城、華盛頓、匹茲堡及其它一些城市產生了一些建築學上的傑作。1958年他組織成了貝聿銘聯合社團的合股機構，1966年成爲貝聿銘股份機構。這個合股機構在1968年獲得由美國建築研究院頒發的建築公司獎。 貝聿銘在國內外設計了四十多個建築項目。其中二十項曾獲獎。更爲出色的受委託項目包括華盛頓國家藝術館東樓；波斯頓附近的約翰·菲茨傑拉德·肯尼迪圖書館；科羅拉多博耳德的國家大氣研究中心；德克薩斯的達拉斯市政廳；海外華人銀行業務中心股份有限公司（OCBC）及新加坡的萊弗斯城；波士頓美術博物館西翼；中國北京附近的香山飯店，該設計將先進技術用於傳統的屋頂上從而開創出一種新的，有鮮明中國特色的現代建築形式；紐約州錫拉丘茲的埃弗鬆藝術博物館；以及休斯敦的德克薩斯商業城。 在麻省理工學院、羅切斯特大學、康奈爾大學、喬特學校、錫拉丘茲大學、喬特學校、錫拉丘茲大學、紐約大學和夏威夷大學的校園裏，他曾設計了藝術場所和大學建築。他還被選中設計了香港中國銀行總部。 貝聿銘目前是國家藝術理事會成員，此前他任職於人文學科全國理事會。他是美國建築師協會會員、英國建築師皇家研究院成員、美國藝術與文學學院（其間他任了一屆的名譽院長）、美國藝術與科學學院和國家設計學院的推舉成員。他是麻省理工學院校務委員會成員。 學生時代，他獲得過麻省理工學院和哈佛的惠爾懷特出國獎學金。他此後獲得榮譽包括：布魯納獎、美國建築師協會紐約分會的榮譽獎章、托馬斯·傑克遜紀念堂建築獎、美藝術與文學學院建築金獎、阿爾發·羅·契金獎、建築學會大金牌（法國）及美國建築師協會金獎。1982年，美國建築學校的校長評貝聿銘爲出色的非居住用建築物最傑出的設計者。
