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Richard Meier

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Also known as Richard Alan Meier

American architect (born 1934)

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Richard Meier is an American and German architect and sculptor born in Newark in 1934. He is a member of the group known as The New York Five. His notable works include the Getty Center, the city hall of The Hague, and the MACBA Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art. Meier has received the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the AIA Gold Medal, the Royal Gold Medal, and the Praemium Imperiale. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Works by Meier are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Design Museum Gent, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. He has authored works such as *Arbeitsbuch Rolandseck, 1990* and *On architecture*.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1934
Works
76

Top works

  • Arbeitsbuch Rolandseck, 1990
  • The Pritzker architecture prize 1984, presented to Richard Meier
  • Richard Meier, Frank Stella
  • Stamberg Aferiat
  • On architecture

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2
Total plays
3

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations

    · 1958 · cited 70,822x

  2. The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

    · 1977 · cited 63,413x

  3. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

    · 2009 · cited 59,266x

  4. Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

    · 2009 · cited 47,672x

  5. ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database

    · 2009 · cited 47,319x

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Key facts

Born
( 1934-10-12 ) October 12, 1934 (age 91) , Newark, New Jersey , U.S.
Alma mater
Cornell University
Occupation
Architect
Awards
Pritzker Prize (1984), AIA Gold Medal (1997)
Practice
Richard Meier & Partners
Buildings
Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, City Hall and Central Library, The Hague, Getty Center, Los Angeles, High Museum of Art, Atlanta

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Encyclopedic overview

Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) 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.

Early life and education

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Richard Meier” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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