| Chien Chung Pei AIA, Partner |
| Chien Chung (Didi) Pei earned a Bachelor of Arts cum laude in Physics from Harvard College in 1968 and graduated in 1972 from the Graduate School of Design with a Master’s Degree in Architecture. As the middle son of I.M. Pei, he was taught the vision, commitment and professional standards essential to the creation of significant and lasting architecture during his formative years. |
| Prior to founding Pei Partnership Architects in 1992 with his brother, Li Chung (Sandi), C. C. Pei spent the first 20 years of his professional career contributing to many of I. M. Pei and Partners’ (now Pei Cobb Freed & Partners) most celebrated projects including the Grand Louvre in Paris and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. There, he developed nationally recognized expertise in museum architecture and medical facility design. He served as Associate Partner for Design + Administration of the Grand Louvre in Paris with its emblematic 70-foot tall glass pyramid and Project Architect and Designer-in-Charge of the West Wing extension of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Other museum/cultural projects to which he and his associates contributed include the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Hall, the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library in Massachusetts, and the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Luxembourg. Current museum projects in association with I.M. Pei include the Macao Science Center and the Suzhou Museum in the Pei family’s native city in China which opened to international acclaim in 2006. |
| C.C. Pei pioneered the development of several major healthcare projects using architecture to advance the healing process. He started with the 1,000,000-square-foot Guggenheim Pavilion at New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center and the Kirklin Clinic at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. C.C. Pei served as Partner-in-Charge of the recently completed 1.2-million-square-foot Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center for which he received the prestigious UCLA Medal. He also completed the renovation of the ultra-modern neurosurgery operating rooms for Mount Sinai Hospital and oversaw construction of the new Martha Stewart Center for Living at Mount Sinai which was dedicated in October 2007. |
| C. C. Pei was Partner-in-Charge for the completed Bank of China Head Office Building in Beijing, China. This 175,000-square-meter corporate headquarters building is the most advanced office building in China. C. C. Pei is also leading the design of the new chancery building for the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Washington, D.C.; the United States National Slavery Museum in Fredericksburg, Virginia; the Golden Beach Resort and Fortune Tower in Qingdao, China; and the Guanajuato State Library in León, Mexico, the first building of the Forum Cultural Guanajuato, masterplanned by PPA in 2001. |
| Throughout his career, C. C. Pei has played an active role in a number of professional and civic organizations including the American Institute of Architects, where he serves as a member of the Delano-Aldrich Fellowship Committee. He is a trustee of the Collegiate School in New York City and Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the China Institute in New York City. He has frequently been called upon to lecture to professional and educational organizations on architectural design. He has lectured on design topics to local AIA chapters in such places as New York, NY; Jacksonville, FL; Memphis, TN; Salt Lake City, UT; Orange County, CA, Los Angeles, CA; and Vancouver, BC. He has served as a jury member for architectural design awards in many of these same chapters. Mr. Pei has lectured at the University of Texas (Austin), the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and Columbia University. He has also lectured at the National Gallery of Art and the National Building Museum, both in Washington, D.C. Internationally, Mr. Pei has lectured in China, France, Italy, Mexico and Aruba.
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