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MEIER Richard

MEIER
Richard

American abstract artist and architect

  • Date of Birth: 12 October 1934
  • Age: 91 years old
  • In the rating: #1 Architect

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Richard Meier is 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, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and San Jose City Hall. In 2018, some of Meier's employees accused him of sexual assault, which led to him resigning from his firm in 2021.

Meier was born to a Jewish family, the oldest of three sons of Carolyn (Kaltenbacher) and Jerome Meier, a wholesale wine and liquor salesman, in Newark, New Jersey. He grew up in nearby Maplewood, where he attended Columbia High School. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1957.

After graduating from Cornell, Meier traveled to Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, and Italy, among other places, to network with architects.

Meier is a second cousin of Peter Eisenman, an architect, theorist, and fellow member of The New York Five.

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Date of Birth 12 October 1934
Age 91 years old

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