Ieoh Ming Pei was born on April 26, 1917, is currently 101 years old.
Although his country of origin is China, at 18 he moved to the United States to study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute.
He is considered one of the successors of great masters of European architecture, such as Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius, since he was his attachment giving classes in Harvard in the fifties.
His work is characterized by following the «international style» and the criteria of Gropius. It seeks the visual aspect of lightness, uses abstract forms, cold materials such as cement and glass.
It was recognized in 1983 with the Pritzker Prize, the most internationally prestige recognition in architecture.