Douglas House: Richard Meier

Richard Meier is a recongnized architect who was born on October 12 of 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, in the U.S.A among the nucleus of a jewish family. He went to the University of Cornell for studying architecture, and he gradueated in 1957. After ending his studies on architecture, he started up his professional career, first working in the office Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, and then for the architect Marcel Breuer. In 1963, he founded his own designing office in New York city, which is now known as "Richard Meier &Partnerners".
Meier has been awarded with several prices for his exceptional architecture in the last 5 decades, and some of them are listed below:

1984: The Pritzker Price
1989: Awarded with the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.
1997: The Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects
2008: Awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with the Gold Medal for Architecture.
2010: Awarded with the Chicago Athenaeum "Good Design".
Year by year, since 1968, Richard Meier & Partner Architects has been awarded with the AIA National Honor Awards.

Richard Meier's Designing Style

Richard Meier had the opportunity of learned from Le Corbusier´s designing ideals, that is mainly why Meier applies a designing style similiar to Le Corbusier's styles. One of those ideals that Meier use to apply on his designs is the five points of the modern arquitecture that Le Corbusier established for a new architecture. Also, Meier applies a concept that Le Corbusier denominated as "the masterly, correct and magnificient play of forms in light" (Le Corbusier), by making the elements of the composition to create different forms from its interaction with contrats of light. Finally, the last but not the less important, is Meier's style of using the white as the main color of his composition, which what he rest value to the type of material and make the spectator to focus totally at the masterpiece, regardless its surroundings.

Richard Meier & Partner Architects

The Richard Meier & Partner Architects is an architectural designing office which started form the leadership of the architect Richard Meier and his associated partners. In its remoate begginings it was founded in New York city, in 1963, but today there is also a second office at Los Angeles, California. The Richard Meier Architects has venturing, not only in the designing and building stages, but also in the learning and teaching process by publishing writtings at books, press and lectures, some of which are available at the official website.