The chair of the Department of Architecture in AAP will bear the name of one of the college's renowned alumni: Richard Meier (B.Arch. '56).
The Richard Meier Chair of the Department of Architecture was announced by the college and by Richard Meier & Partners Architects, Meier's New York City– and Los Angeles–based practice for 55 years.
— Cornell AAP
The first person to hold the new title of Richard Meier Chair of the Department of Architecture will be AAP associate professor Andrea Simitch (B.Arch. '79).
The 83-year-old Meier is the only Cornell alumnus to have received the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1984).
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you forgot Remnent Koolhaas?
Rem Koolhaas did indeed take classes at Cornell, but he didn’t earn a degree there, so he can’t be claimed as an alumnus.
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