He has written and been the subject of many books and monographs and innumerable newspaper and magazine articles. Meier has given numerous lectures throughout the world and participated in many juries. Since receiving his architectural education at Cornell University, he has been awarded honorary degrees from the University of Naples, New Jersey Institute of Technology, The New School for Social Research, Pratt Institute and the University of Bucharest. Meier was selected architect for the prestigious commission to design the $1 billion Getty Center in Los Angeles, California. He was the youngest recipient of this award in the history of the prize. Meier was awarded the Pritzker Prize for Architecture, considered the field's highest honor. He received the Deutscher Architekture Preis in 1993 and in 1992 the French Government awarded him with the honor of Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and in 1989, the Royal Institute of British Architects, of which he is a Fellow, awarded him the Royal Gold Medal.
In 1995, he was elected Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Recognized with the highest honors available in architecture, in 1997 he received the AIA Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects as well as the Praemium Imperiale from the Japanese Government, in recognition of a lifetime achievement in the arts.
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Some of his best-known projects include The Getty Center in Los Angeles, the High Museum in Atlanta, the Frankfurt Museum for Decorative Arts in Germany, the Canal Plus Television Headquarters in Paris, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, and the Atheneum in New Harmony, Indiana. He has been awarded major commissions in the United States and Europe including courthouses, city halls, museums, corporate headquarters, housing and private residences. Richard Meier is well known and respected around the world for his architecture and designs. Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of Architecture, Art, and Planning We will swiftly explore what additional actions are appropriate with regard to endowments for professorships and scholarships previously donated to Cornell.
Therefore, we will decline his new gift to name the chair of the Department of Architecture, and we are cancelling the event that had been planned for next week to celebrate the gift. Although he has apologized, the reported behavior is unacceptable. As one of our most well-known alumni, Richard Meier has been associated with Cornell University and the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning through his gifts that support students and faculty. '56), which were reported in an article in today's New York Times. I am deeply disturbed to learn of the allegations of sexual misconduct by Richard Meier (B.Arch. Alberto Campo Baeza is the founding principal of his eponymous architecture studio and emeritus head professor of design in the Madrid School of Architecture, ETSAM, where he has been a tenured professor for more than thirty-five years.After the scandal produced by the article published yesterday, on March 13, in the wake of sexual harassment allegations, on Richard Meier, Cornell architecture school has quickly disowned its alumnus, condemning the architect and abandoning plans to name the department chair in his honor. Forster has taught at Yale University, Stanford University, MIT, ETH Zurich, and Bauhaus University at Weimar and founded and directed research institutes at the Getty Research Center in Los Angeles and the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Pritzker Architecture Prize and the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects. A biographical chronology and selected bibliography complete this exhaustive and lavish monograph on a modern American master.Ībout the Author Richard Meier began his career in the early 1960s designing projects whose elegant modernist style and white facades have become icons of modern architecture. The architect himself contributes a preface that offers firsthand insight into his thought processes and working methods. Forster and world-renowned architect Alberto Campo Baeza. The development and significance of Meier's work is discussed in authoritative essays by the distinguished architectural historian and curator Kurt W. Thirty residential, commercial, and civic projects are featured in a dazzling variety of scales and locales, including Manhattan, Los Angeles, the Hamptons, Las Vegas, Mexico City, Tel Aviv, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo, among many other venues. Richard Meier, Architect: Volume 8 vividly conveys the purity and power of Meier's unique and celebrated vision.
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Book Synopsis This is Rizzoli's eighth volume in the definitive series of monographs on the work of Richard Meier, one of America's most acclaimed architects.
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