Richard Meier Architects : Information + Images

Key Projects Key Buildings Featured - Photos, links below photographs © adrian welch Museum of Arts and Crafts Frankfurt; Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art Building News 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: The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California, USA 1997 Richard Meier & Partners photo © Alice McRae Getty Center Building Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art 1995 Richard Meier Building : Spain picture © adrian welch 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. Frankfurt Museum of Applied Arts - Kunsthandwerk Museum 1985 photograph © adrian welch 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). More projects online soon World Architects

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