Richard Meier Museums [Hardcover]

Richard Meier (Author), Germano Celant (Introduction), Michael Shapiro (Afterword)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 14, 2006

Richard Meier, one of America's most influential and widely emulated architects, began his career in the early 1960s designing private residential projects, whose elegant modernist style and white facades have become icons of modern architecture. Renowned as the designer of large-scale works around the world, including the Jubilee Church in Rome and the Getty Center in Los Angeles, Meier has set an international style all his own based on the purity and power of his unique vision. This beautifully photographed volume is the first to document Meier's complete catalogue of museum and gallery projects, including the seminal High Museum in Atlanta (recently featured on a U.S. postage stamp in a series that includes the Guggenheim Museum and the Chrysler Building), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, the Getty Center, and the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome. Richard Meier Museums presents these and other celebrated projects in stunning full-color interior and exterior photography and extensive drawings and plans to give the fullest understanding of this modernist master's remarkable contribution to the art of museum design.

Editorial Reviews

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"Pages of vivid photography, diagrams, adn detailed narratives documents the architecural footprints Meier has left behind." -- Mar DWELL MAGAZINE

"sure-to-please" holiday gift, "knock-your-eyes-out" photographs -- 12/17/06 CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"...richly illustrated by full-color interior and exterior photography along with extenzive drawings and plans." -- Dec 06 NEW YORK LIVING

About the Author

Richard Meier's architectural commissions have included the City Hall and Central Library in the Hague. Meier received the Pritzker Prize for Architecture and Gold Medals from the American Institute of Architects and the Royal Institute of British Architects, as well as the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association. Germano Celant is an art critic and Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Michael Shapiro is director of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Rizzoli (November 14, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0847828352
• ISBN-13: 978-0847828357
• Product Dimensions: 12.4 x 1.2 x 12.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,500,105 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Read, May 18, 2007

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Kelsey E. Gallagher "keg92101" (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Richard Meier Museums (Hardcover)

Meier is one of the greatest modernist architects of our time and this is a great reference of his work.

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars CLASSIC MEIER, January 3, 2007

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Shannon Deason (Houston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Richard Meier Museums (Hardcover)

Richard Meier's work is so gorgeous and this book captures in perfectly, in vivid, crisp images and insightful text. Personally, I love all of Meier's work, but his Museums are where he guilds the lilly, but in a good way, because of the massive budgets, he can indulge, and he does. In the breathtaking Getty, he had a benefactor with unlimited resourses and he created, what most consider his signature building, which is given its due in this book. Meier's work is unique and so clean, he is known of course for his stark white moderne exteriors and generous use of glass and light, and to walk into one of his buildings is exhilarating. He is a singular architect and this book does his work justice. Highly recommended..if you where not a Meier fan before this book, I assure you you will be one after. Uh, whoever gave this review an unhelpful..has obviously never seen this book..or is an idiot with dubious taste.