{"id":720060,"date":"2026-06-22T23:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/720060\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T23:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T23:12:12","slug":"i-m-pei-archive-donated-to-mit-museum-architectural-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/720060\/","title":{"rendered":"I.M. Pei archive donated to MIT Museum: architectural treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"

The architectural firm of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners is donating the project archive of founding partner I.M. Pei to the MIT Museum. Pei (1917-2019), one of the most celebrated architects of the last century, graduated from MIT in 1940.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis landmark donation marks the homecoming of I. M. Pei to MIT,\u201d the museum\u2019s director, Michael John Gorman, said in a statement. \u201cThe MIT Museum is thrilled to steward his legacy and, together with MIT\u2019s School of Architecture and Planning, establish a global hub for the study of I. M. Pei.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pei won the Pritzker Prize, architecture\u2019s most prestigious honor, in 1983.<\/p>\n

\"I.M.I.M. Pei, pencil sketch of John F. Kennedy Library.\u00a9 Pei Cobb Freed & Partners<\/p>\n

Among items in the archive are some 1,500 rolls of architectural drawings, 50 architectural models, and 1,000 linear feet of manuscripts and other materials relating to 60 Pei projects. <\/p>\n

They include documents and drawings relating to some of Pei\u2019s most famous buildings: the John F. Kennedy Library, the Louvre Pyramid, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, and Dallas City Hall. <\/p>\n

The archive also includes materials concerning four Pei-designed buildings on the MIT campus: the Green, Dreyfus, Landau, and Weisner buildings.<\/p>\n

The museum hopes to have the archive processed and catalogued by fall 2028.<\/p>\n

Mark Feeney can be reached at mark.feeney@globe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The architectural firm of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners is donating the project archive of founding partner I.M.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[19566,230,228,226,227,8731,309895,229,88,308,309896,19179,309897,28030,309898,309899,28031,3465,2001,20024,4265,309900,5572,21],"class_list":["post-720060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-architect","tag-architecture","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-boston","tag-bw","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-horizontal","tag-i-m-pei-ieoh-ming-pei","tag-jfk","tag-jfk-library","tag-john-f-kennedy","tag-john-f-kennedy-presidential-library","tag-john-fitzgerald-kennedy","tag-kennedys","tag-library","tag-massachusetts","tag-new-england","tag-north-america","tag-politican","tag-president","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}