| Date | Event |
|---|
| 1917, Apr. 26 | Born Ieoh Ming Pei, Canton (Guangzhou), China |
| 1935 | Traveled to the United States to study architecture |
| 1940 | B.S. in architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1942 | Married Eileen Loo (died 2014) |
| 1943-1945 | Operation analyst, National Defense Research Committee |
| 1945-1948 | Assistant professor, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1946 | M.S. in architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1948-1955 | Director of architecture, Webb & Knapp, Inc. |
| 1954 | Became naturalized citizen of the United States |
| 1955-1990 | Founded I. M. Pei & Associates (later I. M. Pei & Partners in 1966, and Pei Cobb Freed & Partners in 1989) |
| 1964 | Elected fellow, American Institute of Architects |
| 1966-1970 | Served on the National Council on the Humanities, appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson |
| 1967 | Elected member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 1975 | Elected member, American Academy of Arts and Letters |
| 1975 | Elected member, Royal Institute of British Architects |
| 1979 | Awarded Gold Medal, American Institute of Architects |
| 1980 | Appointed member, National Council on the Arts by Jimmy Carter |
| 1981 | Elected member, American Philosophical Society |
| 1981-1984 | Member, National Council on the Arts |
| 1983 | Awarded Pritzker Architecture Prize |
| 1986 | Awarded Medal of Liberty by Ronald Reagan |
| 1988 | Awarded National Medal of Art |
| 1990 | Retired from Pei Freed Cobb & Partners |
| 1993 | Awarded Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush |
| 2000 | Received Living Legend Award from the Library of Congress |
| 2003 | Awarded National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement, Smithsonian Institution, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum |
| 2019, May 16 | Died, New York, N.Y. |
| Date | Event |
|---|
| 1952-1956 | Mile High Center, Denver, Colo. |
| 1954-1963 | Luce Memorial Chapel, T’ai-chung shih, Taiwain |
| 1957-1962 | Kips Bay Plaza, New York, N.Y. |
| 1957-1964 | Society Hill, Philadelphia, Pa. |
| 1959-1964 | Cecil and Ida Green Center for Earth Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1960-1961 | Government Center Urban Renewal Plan, Boston, Mass. |
| 1960-1964 | Southwest Washington urban renewal plan, Washington, D.C. |
| 1960-1970 | National Airlines Terminal, John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, N.Y. |
| 1961-1964 | Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, N.Y. |
| 1961-1964 | Syracuse University S. I. Newhouse Communications Center, Syracuse, N.Y. |
| 1961-1966 | University Plaza, New York University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1961-1967 | National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo. |
| 1962-1970 | Air traffic control towers, various U.S. airports |
| 1963-1967 | New College of Florida dormitories, student union, and academic center, Sarasota, Fla. |
| 1963-1971 | Wilmington Tower, Wilmington, Del. |
| 1965-1979 | John F. Kennedy Library, Boston, Mass. |
| 1966-1968 | Des Moines Art Center addition, Des Moines, Iowa |
| 1966-1969 | Bedford-Stuyvesant Superblock, Brooklyn, N.Y. |
| 1966-1971 | Cleo Rogers Memorial Library, Columbus, Ind. |
| 1966-1977 | Dallas City Hall, Dallas, Tex. |
| 1967-1973 | Commerce Court, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Toronto, Canada |
| 1968-1970 | Columbia University Comprehensive Master Plan, New York, N.Y. |
| 1968-1972 | Paul Mellon Center for the Arts, Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Conn. |
| 1968-1973 | Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. |
| 1968-1978 | East Building of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
| 1970-1976 | Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Centre, Singapore |
| 1972-1976 | Ralph Landau Chemical Engineering Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1973-1986 | Raffles City, Singapore |
| 1974-1983 | Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters, New Brunswick, N.J. |
| 1977-1981 | Museum of Fine Arts West Wing, Boston, Mass. |
| 1977-1982 | Sunning Plaza, Hong Kong |
| 1977-1984 | International Business Machines Corp. Corporate Office Building, Purchase, N.Y. |
| 1978-1982 | Texas Commerce Tower and United Energy Plaza, Houston, Tex. |
| 1978-1984 | Wiesner Building/Center for Arts and Media Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1979-1982 | Fragrant Hill Hotel, Beijing, China |
| 1979-1986 | Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Plaza, New York, N.Y. |
| 1980-1987 | Bank of America Tower at International Plaza, Miami, Fla. |
| 1981-1990 | Gateway Towers, Singapore |
| 1981-1992 | Guggenheim Pavilion, Mount Sinai Medical Center expansion and modernization, New York, N.Y. |
| 1982-1989 | Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Tex. |
| 1982-1989 | Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong |
| 1983-1989 | International Business Machines Corp. Office Building Complex, Somers, N.Y. |
| 1983-1993 | Musée du Louvre (Grand Louvre), Paris, France |
| 1986-1989 | Choate Rosemary Hall Science Center, Wallingford, Conn. |
| 1987-1995 | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1988-1990 | Shinji Shumeikai Bell Tower, Shiga-ken, Japan |
| 1989-1993 | Four Seasons Hotel, New York, N.Y. |
| 1988-1992 | Kirklin Clinic, Birmingham, Ala. |
| 1990-2007 | Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| 1991-1997 | Miho Museum, Shiga-ken, Japan |
| 1993-1999 | Buck Institute for Age Research, Marin County, Calif. |
| 1994-2001 | Bank of China Head Office, Beijing, China |
| 1995-2000 | Republic of Korea Permanent Mission to the United Nations, New York, N.Y. |
| 1995-2003 | Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany |
| 1996-2001 | Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif. |
| 1999-2003 | Oare Pavilion, Wiltshire, England |
| 2000-2008 | Museum of Islamic Art, Dawḥah, Qatar |
| 2002-2005 | Macau Science Center, Macau, China |
| 2006-2009 | Miho Institute of Aesthetics chapel, Shiga-ken, Japan |
