Renowned architect most famed for the design of the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, Leoh Ming Pei is dead.
M. Pei as he was fondly called, died at the age of 102 years.
He was the first foreign architect to work on the Louvre in its long history, and won the fifth Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1983.
M. Pei was born in China in 1917. His father was a banker, but his artistic mother, a calligrapher, had the greater influence on him.
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Part of his most celebrated works includes the design of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum in 1964.
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