Richard Meier

Born 1934 · American · 13 buildings on the wall

Richard Meier (born 1934) is an American architect and abstract artist known for geometric buildings in which white dominates. In 1972 he was named one of the New York Five, a group of modernist architects with Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charles Gwathmey and John Hejduk, and in 1984 he won the Pritzker Prize. In 2018 several women accused him of sexual harassment or assault, and he resigned from his firm in 2021.

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He first gained wide notice for houses and for The Atheneum, a visitor centre in New Harmony, Indiana (1979), and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta (1983). His design for the Getty Center in Los Angeles (1997), a hilltop complex of concrete and steel clad in travertine or aluminium, raised his profile further; its museum grid is turned 22.5 degrees against the rest of the plan. The Jubilee Church in Rome (2003), meant to recall a ship, rises in three large curved walls of precast concrete, coated in a titanium dioxide cement that breaks down pollution and keeps the walls white. Richard Meier's buildings are studied for their grids, white surfaces and use of daylight.

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