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banker.
At the age of 16 he set his career as an architect by studying
architecture in United States. He received the bachelor’ s degree in
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1940.
He done his
master’s degree from
Harvard University in
1946.
He became a U.S.
citizen in 1954.
He received many awards
throughout
his life such asNew York State Governor's
Arts Award in 1994 , Excellence2000
Award in1991, National Medal of Art in
1988,and most important Pritzker Prize
in 1983.
This is the beginning of the popular "The Tale of Peach Blossom Spring " a
very famous folk story from the Jin Dynasty in China. Taking this tale into
account the renowned Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei designed the
museum Miho, in Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
“This site is extremely difficult to get to and we have
all kinds of regulations that we have to follow
because we are only allowed to expose a fraction
of the building.”
So he dug up the mountain, placed some 80% of the building
underground, restored the landscape's original contours,
and designed peaked glass roofs that admit light into the
lobby and other public spaces
Principles followed by Pei is the respect for Chinese-
Japanese tradition, despite the use of modern
architecture. The entrance to the museum, for instance, -a
group of staircases- gives the visitor almost a
processional experience, as if it one would be entering a
Buddhist temple.
Upon entering, the geometric
structure clearly evokes the
wooden roof of a traditional minka,
or Japanese farmhouse.