English Original
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.
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).
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., a real estate development firm. 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 & Partners 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
- The Texas Commerce Tower in Houston
He has also designed arts facilities and university buildings on the campuses of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Rochester, Cornell University, the Choate School, Syracuse University, New York University, and the University of Hawaii. He was selected to design the headquarters for the Bank of China in Hong Kong.
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 also a member of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
As a student, he was awarded the MIT Traveling Fellowship and the Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship at Harvard. His subsequent honors include the Brunner Award, the Medal of Honor of the New York Chapter of the AIA, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Medal for Architecture, the Gold Medal for Architecture of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Alpha Rho Chi Gold Medal, la Grande médaille d'Or de l'Académie d'Architecture (France), and The Gold Medal of The American Institute of Architects. In 1982, the deans of the architectural schools of the United States chose I. M. Pei as the best designer of significant non-residential structures.
中文翻译
在这个充满活力的星球上，蔚蓝的海洋、葱翠的植物以及众多世界著名的建筑构成了多彩的画卷。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。
贝聿铭是1983年普利兹克建筑奖得主，也是总部位于纽约的贝聿铭建筑事务所的创始合伙人。他于1917年出生在中国，是一位杰出银行家的儿子。1935年，他前往美国，在麻省理工学院（1940年获建筑学学士学位）和哈佛大学设计研究生院（1946年获建筑学硕士学位）学习建筑。
第二次世界大战期间，他在普林斯顿的国防研究委员会任职，并于1945年至1948年间在哈佛大学任教。1948年，他接受了房地产开发商韦布与纳普公司新设立的建筑总监一职。这次合作促成了芝加哥、费城、华盛顿、匹兹堡等城市的主要建筑和规划项目。1958年，他成立了贝聿铭联合建筑师事务所，该事务所于1966年更名为贝聿铭建筑事务所。该事务所于1968年获得了美国建筑师协会颁发的建筑事务所奖。
贝聿铭在国内外设计了四十多个项目，其中二十个曾获奖项。他更著名的委托项目包括：
- 华盛顿特区国家美术馆东馆
- 波士顿附近的约翰·菲茨杰拉德·肯尼迪图书馆
- 科罗拉多州博尔德的国家大气研究中心
- 德克萨斯州达拉斯市政厅
- 新加坡的华联银行中心和大华银行广场（莱佛士城）
- 波士顿美术博物馆西翼
- 中国北京附近的香山饭店，该设计旨在将先进技术嫁接到传统建筑的屋顶上，从而播下一种新的、具有鲜明中国特色的现代建筑形式的种子
- 纽约州锡拉丘兹的埃弗森艺术博物馆
- 休斯顿的德克萨斯商业大厦
他还在麻省理工学院、罗切斯特大学、康奈尔大学、乔特学校、锡拉丘兹大学、纽约大学和夏威夷大学的校园内设计了艺术设施和大学建筑。他曾被选中设计香港中国银行总部大楼。
贝聿铭目前是美国国家艺术委员会委员，此前曾任职于美国国家人文委员会。他是美国建筑师协会会员、英国皇家建筑师学会会员，并被推选为美国艺术与文学院（曾担任一届名誉院长）、美国艺术与科学院和国家设计学院的成员。他还是麻省理工学院校务委员会成员。
学生时代，他获得了麻省理工学院的旅行奖学金和哈佛大学的惠尔怀特旅行奖学金。他随后获得的荣誉包括：布鲁纳奖、美国建筑师协会纽约分会荣誉奖章、托马斯·杰斐逊纪念建筑奖章、美国艺术与文学院建筑金奖、Alpha Rho Chi金奖、法国建筑学院大金奖以及美国建筑师协会金奖。1982年，美国各建筑学院的院长评选贝聿铭为重要非住宅类建筑的最佳设计师。