richard meier overview
DESCRIPTION
TRANSCRIPT
• Richard Meier was born in
Newark, New Jersey on
October 12, 1934.
• Meier earned a Bachelor of
Architecture degree from Cornell
University in 1957.
• In 1965, He designed a
house for his parents in
Essex Fells, New Jersey, it
was one of the earliest
Completed projects by
Meier.
• In 1967, He Complete Smith House in Darien,
Connecticut, who later became a Typology that guided
the design of Private houses which he designed later.
• In 1970, He started the Project of Bronx
Developmental Center in The Bronx, New York, it
was one of the his earliest large buildings of
Alucobond.
• In 1973, He designed Douglas House in Harbor
Springs, Michigan, it had an interesting view so many
newspapers published articles about it.
• In 1979 He appeared to work in Museum for the
Decorative Arts In Frankfurt, Germany, the project
represented a starting point for Richard Meier because it
was the first European large project for him.
• In 1979, He designed The High Museum of Art in
Atlanta, Georgia.
• In 1984, at the age of 49 Meier
was awarded the Pritzker Prize
which awarded annually by the
Hyatt Foundation to honor "a
living architect whose built
work demonstrates a combination of
those qualities of talent, vision and
commitment, which has produced
consistent and significant contributions
to humanity and the built environment
through the art of architecture.
• In 1984, He designed
The Getty Center in
Los Angeles,
California, it is The
largest Meier project
At all, It took 13 years
to build (1984-1997).
• In 1988, Meier was awarded royal institute of British
Architects medal
• In 1989, He designed
Frankfurt Museum of
Ethnology in Frankfurt,
Germany. Meier described
this a project that he
regretted to not used its
design in most of his
buildings.
• Nowadays, Richard Meier
& Partners Architects has
offices in New York and
Los Angeles with current
projects ranging from
China to Paris, and he was
awarded more than 80
awards between 1968 and
2010.
• Richard Meier Architecture
went through many stages of
evolution, but eventually it
settles in the pattern which has
the following features:
1. in terms of Form:
2. in terms of Colors:
3. in terms of Materials:
4. in terms of Lighting:
International
Center for
Possibility
Thinking,
Garden
Grove,
California
Shenzhen
Housesm
Shenzhen,
China
Tianjin Villa,
Tianjin,
China
Burda
Museum,
Baden-
Baden,
Germany
International
Center for
Possibility
Thinking,
Garden
Grove,
California
Burda
Museum,
Baden-
Baden,
Germany
Bayer AG
Headquarters,
Leverkusen,
Germany
Barcelona
Museum of
Contemporary
Art,
Barcelona,
Spain
Avery Fisher
Hall
Competition,
Lincoln
Center, New
York,USA
Daimler-Benz
Research
Center, Ulm,
Germany
Daimler-Benz
Research
Center, Ulm,
Germany
Daimler-Benz
Research
Center, Ulm,
Germany
Burda
Museum,
Baden-
Baden,
Germany
Daimler-Benz
Research
Center, Ulm,
Germany
Kojaian
Apartment
New York,
USA
Siemens
Headquarters
Building,
Munich,
Germany