Key Buildings Featured - Photos, links below
Museum of Arts and Crafts Frankfurt; Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
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Hans Arp Museum, Bahnhof Rolandsdeck, nr Cologne, Germany
2007
Richard Meier - Hans Arp Museum
Key Richard Meier Buildings (chronological):
Smith House, Darien, Connecticut, USA 1964-67
House, Old Westbury, Nassau County, Long Island, New York, USA 1968-71
Douglas House, Harbor Springs, Michigan, USA 1971-73
Shamberg Residence, at Chappaqua, New York, USA 1972-74
The Atheneum, at New Harmony, Indiana, USA 1975-79
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 1980-83
Museum of Decorative Arts, Frankfurt, Germany 1981-84
Westchester House, Westchester County, New York, USA 1984-86
Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain 1987-95
Hague City Hall and Central Library, The Hague, Netherlands 1986-95
The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California, USA 1984-97
Other Richard Meier Buildings (chronological):
Hoffman house, Hampton, New York, USA 1967
Giovannitti House, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 1983
Siemens Facility, Munich, Germany 1985-95
Canal+ Headquarters, Paris, France 1992
Rachofsky house, Dallas, Texas, USA 1995
173/176 Perry Street, New York, USA 2002
Jubilee Church, Rome, Italy 2003
Ara Pacis Museum, Rome, Italy 2006
Richard Meier - RIBA Gold Medal 1988 Winner
Featured Richard Meier Architecture:
We have text and images online for three projects by American architect Richard Meier - in Spain, Germany & Scotland
Richard is adept at creating sculptural white buildings that pay homage to Le Corbusier but move the Modernist language forward. He started out with a large, beautiful houses in the US - such as the Smith House in 1966 - but soon was producing well-respected buildings across the world.
I visited his Frankfurt building - Kunsthandwerk Museum - whilst at University and it was a key piece of Modern architecture within our studies: the clash of grids was fresh and attractive and the sophisticated handling of disjuncture of form left other equally famous architects in the shade.
The first project is a well known building, later in Richard's genre, and I think can be seen as a perfection of his style. It has progressed from the earlier house 'studies in neo-Modernism' but unlike larger, later projects - such as at The Hague - it has lost none of the scale and craftmanship of the earlier houses:
Richard Meier Building : Spain
Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
1988-95
Richard Meier & Partners, Architects
Typical Richard Meier building with rectilinear elements expressed in his trademark white metal panels and key elements expressed in white render as organic forms in plan. Meier has created lyrical forms here and the building appears successful when view from many angles.
It could be argued that Richard Meier should have engaged more with the context of Barcelona architecture as the building appears on every level to be similar to ones he´s designed for other cities. However the pure whiteness is a joy to behold in the scruffy backlands off La Rambla and the importance of the building suggests breaking the texture of Barcelona is appropriate.
Richard Meier Building : Germany
Frankfurt Museum of Applied Arts - Kunsthandwerk Museum
1985
The second project is The Museum of Decorative Arts in Frankfurt, one of Richard's seminal buildings as he perfected his use of disjuncture in a non-domestic setting, and out of his own country. The result was widely reported and much-visited:
Richard Meier Masterplan : Scotland
Edinburgh Park
1993-
The third project is not a building but a masterplan for what could be termed a business park, but Edinburgh Park is more a landscape with offices than a traditional edge-of-town business zone. This development was masterplanned by Richard Meier Architects (with local assistance by Campbell & Arnott).
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Richard Meier - Background:
Meier was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1934. In 1957 he graduated from Cornell University, USA. Richard worked for Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill Architects and also Marcel Breuer Architect. His practice started in 1963.
Meier was a member of the "New York Five", famous for purist white neo-Corbusian architecture.
Richard Meier influence - Marcel Breuer Architect
Richard Meier - Awards:
Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1998
American Institute of Architects Gold Medal, 1997
Richard Meier & Partners, Architects LLP - Offices:
New York, USA
212 967-6060
Los Angeles, California
310 208-6464
Former Richard Meier practice - SOM : Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Architects
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Richard Meier - Pritzker Prize winner 1984
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Member of the 'New York Whites':
Peter Eisenman
Michael Graves
Charles Gwathmey
John Hejduk
Richard Meier
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