Richard Meier’s oeuvre is known for bold, geometric buildings cast in luminous white, a color he believes enhances nature and refracts the world. One of the most recognized architects alive today, Meier has dedicated five decades to his field and worked on projects around the globe. As part of our partnership with PLANE—SITE (a Berlin-based creative agency working at the interface of urban form, cultural space and social life), we are sharing another video from their Time-Space-Existence series featuring Richard Meier.
In this new short video, Meier discusses his first ever black building, 685 First Avenue in New York, as well as his love of designing buildings for public gathering, for enjoyment and for learning. Part of the renowned New York Five group of Modernist architects, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect, over the course of his fifty-year career, has consistently placed formal clarity, light, and abstraction at the center of his work. Equally committed to pedagogy, Meier also advocates for the role of architecture in government, education, and community. He is best-known for the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia and the Jubilee Church in Rome.
Produced by PLANE—SITE, the video has been commissioned by the GAA Foundation and funded by the ECC in the run-up to the Time-Space-Existence exhibition during La Biennale di Venezia Architettura, opening May 2018 in Palazzo Bembo and Palazzo Mora. The series has already featured interviews with both prominent and emerging architects such as Arata Isozaki and Tatiana Bilbao.
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What a clown.
You couldn't pay me to listen to his drivel.
He should have inverted the colours of his shirt and tie.
white is the perfect color because...blah, blah, blah — you want it all black? — that will cost you extra — cash up front? — ok, I’ll do it — it’s all about the space anyway — how delicious! — way to go, Richie! — some of us are still with you; we still have to save our planet.
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