mo4ch:>Louvre pyramid, JFK library & other iconic designs by late Chinese-US architect I.M. Pei (PHOTOS) | Mo4ch News

World-renowned Chinese-born architect I.M. Pei has died at the age of 102, his son Li Chung Pei confirmed, leaving behind dozens of distinctive buildings as well as three children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.Pei trained under modernist architect and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, getting his start with commercial real estate developer Zeckendorf in New York and launching his own firm in 1955.Perhaps Pei’s most iconic structure, the glass and steel entrance pyramid of the Louvre Museum in Paris was completed in 1989; when it was first proposed, 90 percent of Parisians reportedly loathed it, though it has since become a beloved landmark.The National Gallery East Building in Washington, DC opened in 1978, a brutalist monolith built in marble on a trapezoidal plot of land featuring a triangle motif. It is one of his most critically-acclaimed buildings, popular with architectural critics and visitors alike.The 70-story Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong is one of the most recogn…