The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has announced its MIT Museum is acquiring the project archives of prominent architect IM Pei.
WBUR reports the project archives contain tens of thousands of architectural drawings, approximately 50 architectural models and over a million pages of manuscripts. Its contents encompass more than 60 projects, including the Louvre’s glass pyramid in Paris and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.
The China-born Pei graduated from MIT in 1940 with a degree in architecture. Four buildings on its Cambridge, Massachusetts-based campus are designed by Pei, who passed away in 2019. His project archives have been held at Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, the firm he founded, and MIT plans to use the materials for teaching, research and exhibition.
“It’s an exciting moment for MIT,” said MIT Museum assistant curator of architecture Jonathan Duval. “IM Pei’s archive really belongs here. This is where he started his architectural career and education. It’s a homecoming.”
Photo of IM Pei in 1980
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