(born 1917) Architect born in Canton, China, becoming a US citizen in 1954. His global works are characterized by both rational modern style and serene elegance in the interplay of planes of glass and stone/ concrete. Among his best-known works are Boston’s John Hancock Tower (1972), the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the Bank of China in Hong Kong which reunites his modernist vision with Chinese symbolism. He won the Pritzker Prize in 1983.