14. Unusual Architect--Ieoh Ming Pei
14. 非凡的建筑師一一貝聿銘
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.
在這個充滿活力的星球上,蔚藍(lán)的海洋,蔥萃的樹木以及許多世界著名的建筑使它變得多姿多彩。在這些世界上最大的人工作品中,有許多都出自同一位建筑師之手——貝聿銘。
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).
貝聿銘,1983年普利茲克建筑獎的獲得者,是紐約貝聿銘股份公司的創(chuàng)建人之一。他 1917年生于中國,其父是一位出色的銀行家。1935年他來到美國,在麻省理工學(xué)院(1940年獲建筑學(xué)學(xué)士)和哈佛設(shè)計研究生院(1946年獲建筑學(xué)碩士)學(xué)習(xí)建筑。
During World War II, he served o n 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 r. 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.
第二次世界大戰(zhàn)期間,他在國防研究委員會普林斯頓分部供職,1945年至1948年間,在哈佛任教。1948年他接受了一家房地產(chǎn)開發(fā)商韋布奈普有限公司新設(shè)立的建筑部主任的職位,他對這家公司的加盟使得芝加哥、費城、華盛頓、匹茲堡及其他一些城市產(chǎn)生了一些建筑學(xué)上的杰作。 1958年他組成了貝聿銘聯(lián)合社團(tuán)的合股機(jī)構(gòu),1966年成為貝聿銘股份機(jī)構(gòu)。這個合股機(jī)構(gòu)在1968年獲得由美國建筑研究院頒發(fā)的建筑公司獎。
Pei has designed over forty projects in this country and abroad, twenty of which have been award winners. 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 a member of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
貝聿銘在國內(nèi)外設(shè)計了四十多個建筑項目。其中二十項曾獲獎。貝幸銘目前是國家藝術(shù)理事會成員,此前他任職于人文學(xué)科全國理事會。他是美國建筑師協(xié)會會員、英國建筑師皇家研究院成員、美國藝術(shù)與文學(xué)學(xué)院(期間他任了一屆的名譽院長)、美國藝術(shù)與科學(xué)學(xué)院和國家設(shè)計學(xué)院的推舉成員、他是麻省理工學(xué)院校務(wù)委員會成員。