Pei, the preeminent US architect who forged a distinct brand of modern building design with his sharp lines and stark structures, has died in New York, his sons' architecture firm said Thursday. The New York Times, citing Pei's son Li Chung, said the architect had died overnight Wednesday into Thursday. There is a certain concern for history but it's not very deep," Pei, with his owlish round-rimmed glasses, told The New York Times in a 2008 interview. He then enrolled in Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, where he received a master's degree in architecture in 1946. It was "a composition of angular stone forms... that remains the most visible emblem of modern Washington," said a New York Times review 30 years after its unveiling.

Source: Philippine Star May 17, 2019 05:46 UTC