Which Chinese-American architect designed the Louvre Pyramid?

Which Chinese-American architect designed the Louvre Pyramid? I. M. Pei designed it.

Pei was selected in 1983 for President François Mitterrand’s Grand Louvre project, which modernized the museum and reorganized its entrance. His glass-and-metal pyramid was built in the Louvre’s Cour Napoléon and opened in 1989.

The pyramid is not a separate museum or palace; it is the principal entrance and skylight above an underground visitor hall. Its transparent geometry brings daylight below ground and distributes visitors toward the Louvre’s different wings. Pei’s design was controversial because its modernist form contrasted sharply with the historic palace surrounding it.

A common mix-up is confusing Pei with Renzo Piano, Frank Gehry, or Le Corbusier. Those architects designed important buildings elsewhere, but Pei created the Louvre Pyramid. The structure is about 21.6 meters high and uses 603 rhombus-shaped and 70 triangular glass panes; the often-repeated figure of 666 panes is a persistent myth.