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The AIA gratefully
acknowledges the
following sponsors
of our 150th Anniversary
celebration:
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Founders Circle:
$1,000,000:
McGraw-Hill
Construction,
Official Media
Sponsor
Autodesk,
Official Software
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Year Awarded: 1997
Born: October 12, 1934;
Newark, New Jersey, USA
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Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.
I manipulate forms in light, changes of scale and view, movement and stasis . . . architecture is the thoughtful making of space, space that we exist in, move through, and use.
I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow.
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• 2004: Frieder Burda Museum, Baden Baden, Germany
• 1997: Getty Center, Los Angeles
• 1996: Museum of Television & Radio, Los Angeles
• 1995: Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona
• 1984: Modern Art Wing Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines,
Iowa
• 1983: High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Ga.
• 1979: The Atheneum, New Harmony, Ind.
• 1976: Bronx Developmental Center, New York City
• 1973: Douglas House, Harbor Springs, Mich.
• 1967: Smith House, Darien, Connecticut
Biography
Richard Meier received a BArch from Cornell University in 1957.
After Cornell, he worked for and learned from leading architects
such as Davis, Brody, and Wisniewski; Skidmore, Owings, and
Merrill; and Marcel Breuer. In 1963, he established his own
practice in New York. His first commission was for a home for his
parents in Essex Fells, N.J.
At 49, Richard Meier was the youngest architect to receive his
profession's highest accolade, the 1984 Pritzker Architecture
Prize. Shortly thereafter, he was awarded the commission to design
The Getty Center, a complex of buildings funded by the J. Paul
Getty Trust to serve as an art center in Los Angeles.
Meier has also been awarded the 1989 Royal Gold Medal from RIBA, a
Metal of Honor from the New York chapter of the AIA, 12 national
AIA Honor Awards, 31 New York AIA Design Awards, and the Arnold W.
Brunner Memorial Prize from the American Academy and Institute of
Arts and Letters.
His use of white enameled panels and lots of glass to create a
light and airy feeling are hallmarks of Meier’s style. He
combines this with vertical and horizontal elements laid out in
linear relationships, creating elegant lines within a natural
environment. For example, the shape of the Getty Center is drawn
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