Finding Aids to Archival Collections

Correspondence, memoranda, project proposals and reports, meeting minutes, plans, maps, lists, report forms, photographs, financial records, newspaper clippings, and other printed matter documenting projects either declined by Pei or accepted by him but later cancelled, as well as projects for which Pei’s firm was not selected by the client. Pei’s staff created the series and characterized the projects filed within it as “proposed.” Documentation for most projects is not extensive since many of the projects did not progress much beyond the initial inquiry from a prospective client or preliminary fact gathering by Pei’s staff. In addition to individual project files, report forms provide single-sheet summaries of prospective projects for the 1960s and 1970s.