RICHARD MEIER

'Richard Meier' (born October 12 1934 in Newark, New Jersey) is an influential, contemporary American architect known for his rationalist designs and the use of the colour white.
He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1957, worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill briefly in 1959, and then for Marcel Breuer for three years, prior to starting his own practice in New York in 1963. Identified as one of The New York Five in 1972, his commission of the Getty Center Museum in Los Angeles, California catapulted his popularity among the mainstream.
Much of Meier's work builds on the work of the architectural masters of the early to mid-20th century- especially that of Le Corbusier and, in particular, Le Corbusier's early phase. In fact, it might be said that Meier has probably built more using Corbusier's ideas than anyone, including Le Corbusier himself. Meier expanded many ideas evident in Le Corbusier's work, particularly the Villa Savoye and the Swiss Pavilion.
His work also reflects the influences of other master designers such as Mies Van der Rohe and, in some instances, Frank Lloyd Wright and Luis Barragán (without the colour). White has been used in many architectural landmark buildings throughout history, including Cathedrals and the white-washed villages of the mediterranean region--in Spain, southern Italy and Greece.
In 1984, Meier was awarded the Pritzker Prize. He also consulted on the design of several buildings that appear in the 2003 city building computer game ''SimCity 4'', making him perhaps the first professional architect ever commissioned to participate in building design for a computer game.

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Works

★ One Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 2003-2008

★ Ara Pacis Museum, Rome, Italy, 2006

★ ECM City Tower, Prague, Czech republic, 2004-2007

★ San Jose City Hall, San Jose, California, 2004-2007

★ Life Sciences Technology Building, Ithaca, New York, scheduled completion 2007

★ Frieder Burda Museum, Baden Baden, Germany, 2004

★ Jubilee Church, Rome, Italy 2003

★ Sandra Day O'Connor United States Courthouse, Phoenix, Arizona, 2000

★ Camden Medical Centre, Singapore, 1998

★ Getty Center, Los Angeles, California, 1997

★ Rachofsky House, Dallas, Texas, 1996

★ Museum of Television & Radio, Beverly Hills, California, 1996

★ Edinburgh Park masterplan, 1995

★ Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain, 1995

★ City Hall and Central Library, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1995

★ Stadthaus, Ulm, Germany, 1994

★ Daimler-Benz Forschungszentrum, today: DaimlerChrysler Forschungszentrum, Ulm, Germany, 1992

★ Modern Art Wing Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, 1984

★ High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1983

★ The Atheneum, New Harmony, Indiana, 1979

★ Bronx Developmental Center, The Bronx, New York, 1976

★ Douglas House, Harbor Springs, Michigan, 1973

★ Smith House, Darien, Connecticut, 1965-1967

External links

★ Richard Meier official website

★ Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate 1984

★ Meier's Manhattan towers

★ Meier's Miami Condo

★ Baden-Baden website

★ Burda Museum website

★ Rachofsky House website

★ An appreciation of the O'Connor Courthouse with photographs

★ An appreciation of the Hague City Hall

★ Richard Meier in Europe(Photos)