Richard Meier
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Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934 in Newark, New Jersey) is a late twentieth century American architect known for his use of the purist white.
He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1957, worked for SOM (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill) briefly in 1959, then for Marcel Breuer for three years before starting his own practice in 1963. Identified as one of The New York Five in 1972, his commission of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California catapulted his popularity.
Meier is an architect who has used a lot of selected architectural ideas from masters of the early- and mid-20th century. The most notable architect his work channels is Le Corbusier, particularly Corbusier's early phase. In fact, Meier is the one architect who has probably built more using Corbusier's ideas than anyone, including Le Corbusier himself. On the other hand, 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 color). White has been used in many a landmark architectural buildings throughout history including Cathedrals, and the white villages of the mediterranean--in Spain, Italy and Greece. In a sense, Frank Gehry has become an architect like Meier, expanding in areas of Corbusier's work, particularly Ronchamp and La Tourette. Meier has done it with influential works such as the Villa Savoy, and the Swiss Pavilion.
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,[citation needed] making him perhaps the first professional architect ever commissioned to participate in building design for a computer game.
Meier has two children - a son and a daughter. His oldest son, Joseph Meier attended The Dalton School and Yale University where he was a member of the secret Manuscript Society. His daughter, Ana Meier attended the Nightingale-Bamford School and Harvard University.
[edit] Works
- 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
[edit] External links
- QTVR Ara Pacis by Tolomeus
- 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
- Getty Museum Photos
- Richard Meier in Europe(Photos)
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| Johnson (1979) • Barragán (1980) • Stirling (1981) • Roche (1982) • Pei (1983) • Meier (1984) • Hollein (1985) • Böhm (1986) • Tange (1987) • Bunshaft/Niemeyer (1988) • Gehry (1989) • Rossi (1990) • Venturi (1991) • Siza (1992) • Maki (1993) • Portzamparc (1994) • Ando (1995) • Moneo (1996) • Fehn (1997) • Piano (1998) • Foster (1999) • Koolhaas (2000) • Herzog & de Meuron (2001) • Murcutt (2002) • Utzon (2003) • Hadid (2004) • Mayne (2005) • Mendes da Rocha (2006) • Rogers (2007) |
