American kws kes duab vajtse ntawm Suav keeb kwm, J. M. Pei (qhov tseeb tshaj ntawm nws lub npe hauv Cyrillic - Yu Ming Pei) ua kev zoo siab nws lub hnub yug 100th nyob rau lub Plaub Hlis 26, 2017. Raug so haujlwm txij thaum 1990, nws tseem koom tes nrog nws yav dhau los kev cob qhia, Pei Cobb Freed, thiab nrog nws cov tub cov chav haujlwm, Pei Partnership Architects. Ntawm nws cov khoom plig yog AIA Gold Medals (1979), RIBA (2010), International Union of Architects (2014), tus nqi zog Pritzker (1983), thawj kev tsim qauv Praemium Imperiale (1989). Nws yog ib tug tub ceev xwm ntawm Legion of Honour (1993), tus tswv cuab ntawm Institut de France (1984) thiab British Royal Academy (1993).
Nws cov tuam tsev tsis muaj qhov tsis tshua pom tias: kev rov tsim kho ntawm Louvre (ob ntu - 1989 thiab 1993), suav nrog iav iav tau dhau los ua ib qho ntawm cov cim ntawm Paris, tsis muaj tsawg dua sab hnub tuaj tis ntawm National Gallery (1971-1978) hauv plawv plawv Teb Chaws Asmeskas peev, JF Kennedy (1977–1979, Boston) xim dub thiab dawb xim, Bank of China (1989) skyscraper yog ib qho ntawm "zoo tshaj plaws" hauv Hong Kong. Hauv cov dej num ntawm cov xyoo dhau los, J. M. Pei feem ntau hais txog cov ntaub ntawv ib txwm - xws li hauv lub tsev khaws puav pheej hauv Suzhou (2006) lossis lub tsev khaws puav pheej ntawm Islamic art hauv lub nroog Qatar (2008). Txawm li cas los xij, tag nrho nws cov vaj tsev yog qhov txawv los ntawm kev siv lub ntsej muag duab yooj yooj yim: hauv nws cov phiaj xwm no tsis zoo li thawj, kev daws qhov tseeb - lawv yeej tsis yog ib qho txawv.
Txawm li cas los xij, Pei txoj hauv kev muaj qhov muaj koob npe - thiab mus rau qhov tsim thoob ntiaj teb - tsis yog cov ncaj qha tshaj plaws. Nws yug hauv Canton (Guangzhou) rau tsev neeg txhab nyiaj. Xyoo 1935, nws tawm mus rau Tebchaws Meskas mus kawm txog architecture nyob rau ntawd: nws nkag mus hauv University of Pennsylvania hauv Philadelphia, tom qab ntawd hloov mus rau Massachusetts Institute of Technology hauv Cambridge, qhov chaw qhia ntawv yog nyob rau ntawm lub tsev kawm Paris Paris ntawm Kev Ua Zoo Nkauj ntawm xyoo 19 caug xyoo - ib txoj kev sib txuas hauv tebchaws Asmeskas. Tom qab ntawd Pei kawm ntawm Tsev Kawm Ntawv Kev Tsim Kho ntawm Harvard University hauv Boston (1942–46) nrog Walter Gropius thiab Marcel Breuer: nyob ntawd Pei tau raug cem vim nws nyiam ua kev lig kev cai. Thaum lub sijhawm tsov rog xyoo, thaum cov kws ua vajtse raug cov neeg Amelikas nrhiav tau ntau, nws tau ua haujlwm rau National Defense Research Committee. Nyob rau lub sijhawm xyoo 1940, tsis yog ib lub chaw nthuav dav thiab / lossis muaj kev tsim vaj tsev zoo, nws tau xaiv lub tuam txhab kev tsim kho Webb & Knapp ua nws qhov chaw ua haujlwm: nyob ntawd nws tau los ua tus thawj coj ntawm lub tsev haujlwm hauv lub tsev kawm ntawv thiab muaj peev xwm tsim tau ntau yam khoom siv heev rau tus pib ua haujlwm, piv txwv li, ib tus neeg tuam txhab ntawm qhov chaw Ville-Marie hauv Montreal (qhov haujlwm - 1953, kev siv - 1962). Muaj kev paub dhau los thiab kev sib txuas, hauv xyoo 1955 J. M. Pei qhib nws tus kheej rhiav kev ua haujlwm hauv New York, qhov chaw nws nthuav tawm nws daim ntawv qhia thiab lwm yam.
