World-renowned architect Ieoh Ming Pei, commonly known as I.M. Pei, has died at age 102, according to multiple reports on Thursday.

Pei was born in Guangzhou, and raised in Hong Kong and Shanghai, before moving to the United States in 1935. He won a wide variety of prizes and awards in the field of architecture.

I.M. Pei, whose modern designs and high-profile projects made him one of the best-known and most prolific architects of the 20th century.

Pei's portfolio included a controversial renovation of Paris' Louvre Museum and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

The museums, municipal buildings, hotels, schools and other structures that Pei built around the world showed precision geometry and an abstract quality with a reverence for light.

They were composed of stone, steel and glass and, as with the Louvre, he often worked glass pyramids into his projects.