Unusual Architect——Ieoh Ming Pei

非凡的建筑师一一贝聿铭

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.

在这个充满活力的星球上，蔚蓝的海洋，葱萃的树木以及许多世界著名的建筑使它变得多姿多彩。在这些世界上最大的人工作品中，有许多都出自同一位建筑师之手——贝聿铭。

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).

贝聿铭，1983年普利兹克建筑奖的获得者，是纽约贝聿铭股份公司的创建人之一。他 1917年生于中国，其父是一位出色的银行家。1935年他来到美国，在麻省理工学院(1940年获建筑学学士)和哈佛设计研究生院(1946年获建筑学硕士)学习建筑。

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 r. M. Pei & Associates, which became I. M. Pei & partners in 1966. The partnership received the 1968 Architectural Firm Award of The American Institute of Architects.

第二次世界大战期间，他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年他接受了一家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，他对这家公司的加盟使得芝加哥、费城、华盛顿、匹兹堡及其他一些城市产生了一些建筑学上的杰作。 1958年他组成了贝聿铭联合社团的合股机构，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。

Pei has designed over forty projects in this country and abroad, twenty of which have been award winners. 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.

贝聿铭在国内外设计了四十多个建筑项目。其中二十项曾获奖。贝幸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(期间他任了一届的名誉院长)、美国艺术与科学学院和国家设计学院的推举成员、他是麻省理工学院校务委员会成员。