Richard Meier
| Richard Meier | |
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Meier in New York City, April 2009
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| Born |
October 12, 1934 Newark, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Cornell University |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards |
Pritzker Prize (1984) AIA Gold Medal (1997) |
| Website | www |
| Practice | Richard Meier & Partners |
| Buildings | Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art City Hall and Central Library, The Hague Getty Center, Los Angeles |
Richard Meier (born October 12,1934) is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. A winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984, Meier has designed several iconic buildings including the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and the Getty Center in Los Angeles.
Meier was born to a Jewish family, the oldest of three sons of Jerome Meier, wholesale wine and liquor salesman, and Carolyn Kaltenbacher in Newark, New Jersey. He grew up in nearby Maplewood, where he attended Columbia High School. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1957.
After graduation, Meier traveled to Israel, Greece, Germany, France, Denmark, Finland, and Italy, among other places, to network with architects.
Meier is also the second cousin of Peter Eisenman, an architect, theorist, and fellow member of The New York Five.
In New York City, Meier worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill briefly in 1959, and then for Marcel Breuer for three years, prior to starting his own practice in 1963. In 1972, he was identified as one of The New York Five, a group of modernist architects: Meier, Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey, and John Hejduk. Early in his career, Meier worked with artists such as painter Frank Stella and favored structures that were white and geometric.
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