Richard Meier, Architect Volume 1

by Joseph Rykwert and Richard Meier

Book Overview

Documents the complete work, both projected and realized, of one of the original New York Five architects, whose work has won National Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847804976
• ISBN13: 9780847804979
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Length: 411 Pages
• Weight: 4.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 10.1" x 10.0"

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25 selected projects from 1965 to 2000 in B & W

Only ISBN: 1580930611 or ISBN: 1580930441 published by the Monacelli Press on 304 pages as an exhibition catalog with beautiful only B & W photos and drawings (many 3D) and minimal text. FROM FRONT FLAP: Over his thirty-five-year career Richard Meier has produced an internationally recognized body of work that reinterprets and recovers the ideals of modernism. With the completion of the landmark Getty Center in Los Angeles, Meier's distinct vision has emerged as architecture that is truly for our time. This catalog, accompanying a major exhibition organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (and traveling throughout the world), beautifully documents Meier's career with exquisite duotone photographs and the architect's own drawings, most of which have never been published. Twenty-five of Meier's masterworks are featured, including the Smith House in Darien, Connecticut; the Douglas House, on the shores of Lake Michigan; the Museum for Decorative Arts in Frankfurt; the Canal+ Headquarters in Paris; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona; and the Getty Center. Current projects, including federal courthouses in Islip, New York, and Phoenix, Arizona, and the Church of the Year 2000 in Rome, are also presented. A collection of insightful essays and commentaries by, among others, noted scholars Kenneth Frampton and Jean-Louis Cohen and architect Stan Allen illuminates various formal, theoretical, and practical issues at work in Meier's ever-evolving approach to the art of architecture. An extensively illustrated chronology of built and unbuilt work completes this first volume to document the entirety of Meier's extraordinary oeuvre. CONTENTS: Richard Koshalek and Dana Hutt 6 Introduction: Richard Meier, Light + Space Architect Dana Hutt 8 Richard Meier's Working Space: The Uses of Abstraction Stan Allen 12 Figures in an Urban Landscape: Meier at the Millennium Kenneth Framp ton 28 Creative Repetition Jean-Louis Cohen 34 Smith House 40 Bronx Developmental Center 48 Douglas House 56 Olivetti Branch Office Prototype 66 The Atheneum 72 The Hartford Seminary 84 Frankfurt Museum for the Decorative Arts 94 High Museum of Art 108 Siemens Corporate Headquarters 118 The Getty Center 128 Westchester House 152 Ackerberg House 162 Grotta House 170 The Hague City Hall and Central Library 180 Ulm Exhibition and Assembly Building 190 Weishaupt Forum 200 Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art 208 Royal Dutch Paper Mills Headquarters 216 Madison Square Garden Site Redevelopment 224 Canal+ Headquarters 232 Rachofsky House 240 Islip Courthouse 248 Neugebauer House 254 Phoenix Courthouse 262 Church of the Year 2000 268 The Richard Meier Archive Lisa J. Green 276 Buildings and Projects 1960-1999 282 Selected Bibliography 302

Excellent Book of Richard Meier

The Book is Great. If you love the style of Richard Meier, you sure would love this book too.

Must-have for Meier fans

This 3rd in a series monograph by Rizzoli is a must-have addition to any serious architectural book library or to fans of Richard Meiers work. The numerous color photos are top rate, and together with a large number of drawings give a thorough overview of one of the top designers of today. The many photos in particular attest as to the successful completion of previously anticipated projects which have been in the pipeline, while new drawings herald new masterpieces to come.