IM Pei, the architect who designed the Louvre Pyramid, dies at 102

Chinese-American architect I M Pei poses with the architectural model of the Louvre Pyramid in Paris in 1986. Photo: AFP

IM Pei, the versatile, globe-trotting architect who revived the Louvre with a giant glass pyramid and captured the spirit of rebellion at the multi-shaped Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, has died at age 102.

Pei’s death was confirmed May 16 by Marc Diamond, a spokesman for the architect’s New York firm, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. One of Pei’s sons, Li Chung Pei, told The New York Times his father had died overnight.