Richard Meier
Richard Meier
Richard Meieris an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. A winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984, Meier has designed several iconic buildings including the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and the Getty Center in Los Angeles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth12 October 1934
CityNewark, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
thinking people architecture
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.
thinking space light
When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light.
dream growing-up team
To be an architect has been a life-long dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of 14 'what do you want to do when you grow up?' I said I wanted to be an architect. After 50 years I am still learning all what that means. Working together with so many people has been enormously gratifying. Being an architect means being a member of a fantastic team.
past long architecture
We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.
rome cities frozen
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
responsibility order architecture
The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.
night light symbiosis
Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.
thinking white color
I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow.
important architecture polemics
An important work of architecture will create polemics.
mother art believe
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 intangible.
carpet continuity floors gives openness people warmth whatever wood works
Wood floors give it a warmth that works well with the openness and transparency of the units, the way in which the wood extends out to the balcony. It gives it a continuity of surface, and people can then put down carpet or rugs or whatever they want.
main
One of the main objections, I think, was that I am American.