Richard Meier

Smith House

Emilio Alvarez Abouchard

‘A Meier building is a sensuous experience before it is anything else. It is an exploration of solid and void and light and texture, and an essay on composition, Every Richard Meier building is visually compelling…they are deeply beautiful.’ Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker, 2009

Richard Meier

Smith House

‘Openness and clarity are characteristics that represent American architecture at its best, and they are the principles which I hope to bring to every design endeavor.’ Richard Meier Introduction to the American Atlas of Architecture, 2009

‘White is the most wonderful color because within it you can see all the colors of the rainbow. The whiteness of white is never just white; it is almost always transformed by light and what is changing; the sky, the clouds, the sun and the moon.’

Richard Meier Pritzker Award acceptance speech excerpt

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‘I believe that architecture has the power to inspire, to elevate the spirit, to feed both the mind and the body. It is for me the most public of arts.’

Richard Meier Lifetime Achievement speech, 2001

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‘When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the untangible.’ Richard Meier Pritzker Award acceptance speech excerpt

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Weahersby, William. Meier´s Milestone Moment. Architectural Record. May 2005 p.339