The author of the glass pyramid in the Louvre has died

At the age of 102, American architect of Chinese descent Ieoh Ming Pei, the author of the glass pyramid at the Louvre, passed away. His son informed the New York Times of this on Thursday. The holder of the prestigious Pritzker Prize also designed other famous buildings, including the Bank of China in Hong Kong and the East Wing of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.
A native of Canton, he grew up in Shanghai and moved to the USA at the age of 18, where he studied architecture at Harvard University. He founded his first studio in New York in 1955 and immediately started to secure large projects.
A proponent of stark geometric lines and a combination of concrete, steel, and glass, he designed skyscrapers as well as university and museum buildings. His signature includes, for example, the Four Seasons Hotel in New York, the J.F. Kennedy Library in Boston, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Outside the United States, he built, among others, the Luxembourg museum Mudam and the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.

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