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Architects I.m. Pei & Frank Gehry

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...design buildings reliable, ordinary buildings. However, the most notable architects in the twentieth century consider their work to be not only functional, but also to be a form of art. Two of the most renown architects of recent decades are I.M. Pei and Frank Gehry. Both of these architects combine materials in imaginative and unusual ways that turn their buildings into functional forms of abstract art.
Ieoh Ming Pei was born in Canton, China in 1917 (Architect I.M. Pei). At the age of eighteen he left China to study architecture in the US at MIT and Harvard. Between 1942 and 1945, as World War II was going on, he worked as a concrete designer for Stone and Webster and in 1946, he moved on to work in the offices of Hugh Asher Stubbins in Boston (Architect I.M. Pei).
Pei was back at Harvard, working as an instructor and then as an assistant professor, when he made the move to Webb & Knapp in 1948...

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