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I. M. Pei at the Museum of Islamic Art, which he designed, in Doha, Qatar.

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Previous winners of the award, which is personally approved by England's Queen Elizabeth II, include such luminaries as Rem Koolhaas, Norman Foster, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Pei will be able to add the award to a list of honors that includes the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Pritzker Prize, regarded by many as the profession’s highest award.

Pei remains active at 92. His recent projects include the Museum of Islamic Art, which opened in 2008 Doha, Qatar, and the Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, which opened in Luxembourg in 2006. He was named to Art+Auction’s “Power List” in 2008 as a “Perennial Power.”

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