Richard Meier,Architect:Volume 5 comprehensively documents Meier's work since 2004.This extensively illustrated presentation vividly conveys the purity and power of Meier's vision.Thirty residential,commercial,and civic projects are featured.Richard Meier received his architectural training at Cornell University and began his career in the early 1960s designing private residential projects whose elegant modernist style and white facades have become icons of modern architecture.Since that time,his international practice has included museums,courthouses,city halls,corporate headquarters,educational facilities,and public housing,in addition to private houses.He has received numerous awards for his work,including the Pritzker Prize for Architecture and the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects.
The latest installment of Rizzoli International Publications' best-selling series of monographs on one of America's most important architects.Richard Meier Architect: Volume 5 documents Meiers work since the publication of the previous volume in 2004.This extensively illustrated presentation,composed by renowned graphic designer Massimo Vignelli.vividly conveys the purity and power of Meier's unique and celebrated vision.Thirty-two residential.eommercial,and civic projects in all are featured,including the Arp Museum in Germanv.the Ara Pacis Musemn m Rome.the San Jose City Hall.the Broad Art Center at UCLA.and new master plans for Newark.New Jersey,and Manhattan's East Side.
The development and significance of Richard Meier's work is discussed in two essays by the distinguished architectural historian Kenneth Frampton and celebrated critic Paul Goldberger.and famed artist Frank Stella provides a personal postscript.A professional chronology and selected bibliography complete this elegant and comprehensive monograph on a true modern American master.
Preface by Richard Meier
Style Is a Word That Has No Plural by Kenneth Frampton
Private Buildings and Projects
Joy Apartment
Malibu Beach House
165 Charles Street
On Prospect Park
Southern Florida House
Houses in Shenzhen
Rickmers House
Fifth Avenue Apartment
Luxembourg House
Bodrum Houses
Tianjin Villa
Public Buildings and Projects
Arp Museum
Ara Pacis Museum
San Jose City Hall
Eli & Edythe Broad Art Center,UCLA
Burda Collection Museum
Peek and Cloppenburg Department Store
Weill Hall,Cornell University
ECM City Tower
Feldmtthleplatz Office Building
Jesolo Lido Village,Condominium,and Hotel
Saint-Denis Office Development
United States Courthouse,San Diego
East River Master Plan
Coffee Plaza
9900 Wilshire
Italcementi ITC Laboratory
Forstmann Little and IMG Headquarters
Rothschild Tower
SoMa Newark Master Plan
Tianjin Hotel
Beethoven Festspielhaus
Afterword by Paul Goldberger
Postscript by Frank Stella
Richard Meier Biography
Chronology
Richard Meier & Partners Model Museum
Bibliography
Collaborators
Consultants
Illustration Credits