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 and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

贝聿铭，1983年普里茨克尔建筑奖获得者，是纽约贝聿铭股份公司的创建人之一。1917年生于中国，其父是一位出色的银行家。1935年他来到美国，先后在麻省理工学院和哈佛设计研究生院学习建筑学。

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.

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

Institute of Technology.

第二次世界大战期间，贝聿铭在国防研究委员会普林斯顿分部供职，1945年至1948年间，在哈佛任教。1948年他接受了房地产开发商韦布奈普有限公司新设立的建筑部主任的职位，他的加盟使这家公司在芝加哥、费城、华盛顿、匹兹堡及其他一些城市创造了建筑学上的杰作。1958年他组建了贝聿铭联合社团的合股机构，并于1966年成为贝聿铭股份机构。这个合股机构在1968年获得由美国建筑研究院颁发的建筑公司奖。

贝聿铭在美国国内及海外设计了四十多个建筑项目，其中二十项曾获奖。他最为出色的作品包括华盛顿国家艺术馆东楼；波斯顿附近的约翰·菲茨杰拉德·肯尼迪图书馆；科罗拉多博耳德的国家大气研究中心；德克萨斯的达拉斯市政厅；海外华人银行业务中心股份有限公司及新加坡的来福士广场；波士顿美术博物馆西翼；中国北京附近的香山饭店，该饭店的设计将先进技术用于中式建筑屋顶上，从而开创出一种新的、有鲜明中国特色的現代建筑形式；纽约州锡拉丘兹的埃弗松艺术博物馆；以及休斯敦的德克萨斯商业城。

贝聿铭目前是国家艺术理事会成员，此前他任职于人文学科全国理事会。他是美国建筑师协会会员、英国建筑师皇家研究院成员、美国艺术与文学学院（他曾担任一届名誉院长）、美国艺术与科学学院和国家设计学院的推举成员。他也是麻省理工学院校务委员会成员。