New York-based Li Chung (Sandi) Pei, 75, attributes his master-architect father’s design of the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse in the early ’60s, as probably having influenced his own decision to become an architect. For two decades, he assisted his father, the iconic I.M. Pei (1917-2019), in award-winning projects like Bank of China Tower (1989) in Hong Kong and Suzhou Museum (2006). In 1992, he founded Pei Partnership Architects with his brother, the late Didi Pei.

Sandi helped usher the first retrospective ever mounted on his father, I.M. Pei: Life is Architecture . The exhibition opened in Hong Kong, is now in Qatar, and will travel internationally over the next two years.

In this exclusive email interview, Sandi talks about the ongoing retrospectives in Doha — the other is I.M

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