Richard Meier, Architect

by Meier, Richard; Koshalek, Richard; Hutt, Dana

• ISBN13: 9781580930444
• ISBN10: 1580930441
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: The Monacelli Press

Summary

The third in a series of Rizzoli monographs on Richard Meier, this volume comprehensively documents the numerous and varied works created since 1992 by one of America's most important architects and a winner of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture. This extensively illustrated presentation, designed by Massimo Vignelli, conveys the purity and power of Meier's celebrated work. Twenty-three projects in all are featured, including federal buildings and courthouses in Islip, New York, and Phoenix, Arizona; the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art; the Museum of Television and Radio in Beverly Hills; the Church of the Year 2000 in Rome; and the widely acclaimed Getty Center in Los Angeles. The development and significance of Richard Meier's work is discussed in two essays by the distinguished architectural historians and critics Kenneth Frampton and Joseph Rykwert. A postscript by Arata Isozaki, a biographical chronology, and a selected bibliography complete the monograph.

Table of Contents

Foreword and Acknowledgments	6	(2)
Richard Koshalek
Dana Hutt
Introduction: Richard Meier, Light + Space Architect	8	(4)
Dana Hutt
Richard Meier's Working Space: The Uses of Abstraction	12	(16)
Stan Allen
Figures in an Urban Landscape: Meier at the Millennium	28	(6)
Kenneth Frampton
Creative Repetition	34	(6)
Jean-Louis Cohen
Smith House	40	(8)
Bronx Developmental Center	48	(8)
Douglas House	56	(10)
Olivetti Branch Office Prototype	66	(6)
The Atheneum	72	(12)
The Hartford Seminary	84	(10)
Frankfurt Museum for the Decorative Arts	94	(14)
High Museum of Art	108	(10)
Siemens Corporate Headquarters	118	(10)
The Getty Center	128	(24)
Westchester House	152	(10)
Ackerberg House	162	(8)
Grotta House	170	(10)
The Hague City Hall and Central Library	180	(10)
Ulm Exhibition and Assembly Building	190	(10)
Weishaupt Forum	200	(8)
Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art	208	(8)
Royal Dutch Paper Mills Headquarters	216	(8)
Madison Square Garden Site Redevelopment	224	(8)
Canal+ Headquarters	232	(8)
Rachofsky House	240	(8)
Islip Courthouse	248	(6)
Neugebauer House	254	(8)
Phoenix Courthouse	262	(6)
Church of the Year 2000	268	(8)
The Richard Meier Archive	276
Lisa J. Green