1917      born in Guangzhou / China
1935-40  Massachusetts Institute für Technologie, Boston
1946      master at Walter Gropius in Harvard
1955      opens own office "I. M. Pei & Associates"
1964      request from Jackie Kennedy Onassis to design
              John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
1983      receives Pritzker Architecture Price
1989      completes the glas pyramide of the Louvre
1989      receives arts prize Praemium Imperiale awarded
              by the imperial family of Japan