SAT考試作文素材分享

　　AN UNUSUAL ARCHITECTLEOH MING PEI

　　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 architectIeoh 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 and the Harvard Graduate School of Design .

　　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., the real estate development firm, and 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  Parteners 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 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; and the Texas Commerce Tower in Houston.

【SAT考試作文素材分享】相關(guān)文章：

SAT英語(yǔ)作文素材分享08-02

SAT作文素材分享ConfronttheTraumaofCancer01-28

SAT作文素材分享2401-28

有關(guān)Superman的SAT作文素材分享01-28

SAT考試作文素材08-02

SAT作文技巧分享08-03

SAT作文經(jīng)驗分享08-23

SAT作文類(lèi)別分享07-31

SAT作文分經(jīng)驗分享08-22