Ieoh Ming Pei was born in Guangzhou, China in 1917 and raised in Hong Kong and Shanghai.  Better known as I.M. Pei he moved to the U.S. in 1935.  His mentors were Le Corbusier who he met while attending MIT in 1935 and Frank Lloyd Wright.  While atending  MIT and Harvard he befriended Walter Gropius and Marcel [...]