I.M. Pei, a famous Chinese-American architect. 19 17 was born in Guangdong, China. Father is a banker. When he was a child, he lived in the Lion Grove in Suzhou, and studied in the American missionary school in Shanghai. 1935 left Shanghai, went to the United States, studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and then transferred to MIT. During World War II, he worked in the US Department of Defense 1943 to 1945 research institutes. 65438-0945 studied at the Graduate School of Architecture of Harvard University and obtained a master's degree. As a teacher, he was influenced by Gropius, Corbusier and Louis Kahn. During the period from 1948 to 1955, he served as the chief architect of new york real estate agent William Zegendorf's Weber's company. 1955 opened his own office. His major architectural works include the Kennedy Library in Boston, the East Pavilion of the National Museum of America in Washington, the expansion project of the Louvre in France, the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong and the Xiangshan Hotel in Beijing, China, realizing his dream of designing architecture in China. Like Louis Kahn, he is regarded as the second generation American architect.