This spring, Shanghai welcomes I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture, the first major retrospective of the Chinese American ...

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 ...

and the Suzhou Museum — helped redefine modern architecture while honoring history and place. Born in Guangzhou and raised in Shanghai and Suzhou, Pei's early exposure to Jiangnan gardens and ...