Richard Meier

Peter Richard Alan Meier ( born October 12, 1934 in Newark, New Jersey ) is an American architect and Pritzker Prize winner.

Life

Richard Meier studied until 1957 at Cornell University in architecture and opened in 1963 his own architectural office in Essex Fells, New Jersey, after he had worked for, inter alia Marcel Breuer.

He received orders for Detached houses / Villas, elegant white building that does not make reference to the so-called " Bauhaus " style, but the domestic architecture of Le Corbusier, as Meier has repeatedly stressed. At this style also close to nearly all of the buildings he designed. They are decorated in white and strict geometric forms and are characterized by light-filled interiors.

One of the few of its principle to build exclusively in white, different exceptions, the Getty Center ( also: Grotta House, West Chester House and Des Moines Art Center Addition). At the Getty Center, the owners insisted on a landscape custom building color, Meier contrast to pure white. The compromise shows itself to every visitor of the Getty Center, at first glance: All the buildings are decorated in a bright ocher, the specially created " Getty White".

His own house, an old farm house in East Hampton on Long Iceland, he freed from the white color and can since the light brown of the shingles dominate again.

Awards, Prizes

Quotes

  • " The important thing is light. Light is life. " ( Richard Meier )
  • " Thank God for one's parents, and Their faith in us. " ( Richard Meier, who had his first office in the home of the parents. )
  • " .... The building advances " Conventional modernist practice provocatively beyond established limits. " ( Ada Louise Huxtable, NY Times, 1979)

Remarkable buildings (selection)

  • Weinstein House (1969-1971), Old Westbury
  • 1973: Douglas House, Harbor Springs, Michigan
  • Atheneum (1975-1979), New Harmony, Indiana, United States
  • Residence of the Olivetti Training Center in Tarrytown (1971 ), New York, United States
  • Museum of Arts and Crafts (1979-1985), today: Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt am Main
  • High Museum of Art (1980-1983), Atlanta
  • Paul Getty Center (1984-1997), Los Angeles
  • Town House and Library (1986-1994), The Hague
  • Daimler -Benz Research Center (1989-1992, today: Daimler Research Center ), Ulm
  • Hypo - Vereinsbank (1989-1993), Luxembourg
  • Townhouse Ulm (1992-1994), Ulm
  • Museum of Contemporary Art (Museu of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, MACBA ) ( 1992-1995), Barcelona
  • White Plaza (1998), Basel, Switzerland
  • Siemens Forum in Munich (1997-2000), Munich
  • Chiesa di Dio Merciful Father (1998-2003), Rome
  • Peek & Cloppenburg flagship store ( fashion store ), opened in 2001, Dusseldorf city center
  • Grohe Corporate Center, opened in 2002, Dusseldorf -Oberkassel
  • Museum Frieder Burda (2002-2004), Baden -Baden
  • Peek & Cloppenburg " Weltstadthaus ", opened in 2007, Mannheim
  • Museo dell ' Ara Pacis Augustae, opened in 2005, Rome
  • Arp Museum, opened in September 2007, Remagen- Rolandseck near Bonn
  • Hamburg- America Center (2009 ), Hamburg
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