![]() Between 19, he worked as a concrete designer for Stone and Webster, and in 1946 he began work in the office of Hugh Asher Stubbins, in Boston. He left China when he was eighteen to study architecture at MIT and Harvard. Ieoh Ming Pei was born in Canton, China in 1917. He seemed to her so filled with promise and he had the imagination and temperament to create a structure that would reinforce her vision of the goals of the library. Kennedy nevertheless selected Pei from a list of candidates that included of some America’s best-known architects. Though relatively unknown and obscure at the time, Mrs. Kennedy, somewhat apologetically, that as a relatively young architect he had not worked on monumental projects. Pei to be the architect of the Kennedy Library. Jacqueline Kennedy played a major role in the selection of I.M. The John Fitzgerald Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum was designed by I.M. ![]()
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