I.M. Pei

Acting

I.M. Pei

Born — Died

1917-04-26 — 2019-05-16

Place of birth

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Known for

Acting

Credits

10 titles

Ieoh Ming Pei (Chinese: 貝聿銘), FAIA, RIBA[2] (English: /joʊ.mɪŋ.ˈpeɪ/ yoh-ming-PAY[3][4] 26 April 1917 – 16 May 2019) was a Chinese-American architect. Born in Guangzhou but raised in Hong Kong and Shanghai, Pei drew inspiration at an early age from the garden villas at Suzhou, the traditional retreat of the scholar-gentry to which his family belonged. In 1935, he moved to the United States and enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania's architecture school, but he quickly transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was unhappy with the focus at both schools on Beaux-Arts architecture, and spent his free time researching emerging architects, especially Le Corbusier. After gr…

Known for

America: The Story of Us poster
8.2

From wagon trains crossing the untamed frontier to man's first steps on the moon, this series offers a compelling look at the people, inventions and events that helped forge the United States of America.

America: The Story of Us

2010

A Cat's Tale poster
10.0

A young domestic "indoor" cat named Marcello escapes from his home one day into the big outdoors to visit "Jujube", a pretty out-door female kitty. Alone for the first time in his short life, Marcello learns to grow up and finds true love.

A Cat's Tale

2008

My Architect: A Son's Journey poster
6.9

World-famous architect Louis Kahn (Exeter Library, Salk Institute, Bangladeshi Capitol Building) had two illegitimate children with two different women outside of his marriage. Son Nathaniel always hoped that someday his father would come and live with him and his mother, but Kahn never left his wife. Instead, Kahn was found dead in a men's room in Penn Station when Nathaniel was only 11.

My Architect: A Son's Journey

2003

Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper poster
9.0

Isamu Noguchi was a sculptor, designer, architect, and craftsman. Throughout his life he struggled to see, alter, and recreate his natural surroundings. His gardens and fountains were transformations meant to bring out the beauty their locations had always possessed.

Isamu Noguchi: Stones and Paper

1997

François Mitterrand : Bâtisseur de mystères poster
NR

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François Mitterrand : Bâtisseur de mystères

2017

I.M. Pei: Building China Modern poster
NR

Entering the twilight of his career, Pei returns to his ancestral home of Suzhou, China to work on his most personal project do date. He is commissioned to build a modern museum in the city's oldest neighborhood which is populated by classical structures from the Ming and Qing dynasties.

I.M. Pei: Building China Modern

2010

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

1990s · 3 titles

Series credits