In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn't do much. Then I started to get kind of antsy, so I decided, I'm going to do some more work. And I chose to do work outside the U.S. because I've spent 45 years here and I wanted to learn more about what's happening in the rest of the world.
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I. M. Pei
Architect; Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate
United States / China · 1917–2019
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Chinese-American architect whose buildings include the Louvre Pyramid, the East Building of the National Gallery of Art and the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. He retired from his firm in 1990 and continued to accept select commissions abroad.
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