Richard Meier

Richard Meier is an American abstract artist and leading architect, whose portfolio includes numerous iconic buildings, such as the Getty Center Los Angeles, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and San Jose City Hall amongst others. In 1957, he graduated from Cornell University before opening his eponymous architecture practice in New York City in 1963. He taught at the Cooper Union in New York for the following ten years, as he became acclaimed in his field. He was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984, lauded by the jury for “creating structures which are personal, vigorous, original. In 1997, upon the opening of the Getty Center Los Angeles became a mainstream figure. His style has been described as an elaboration on Le Corbusier’s early work. His artistic collages the collages mirror Meier’s predilection as an architect for the modernist grid and a purist rectangular arrangement of components that make a visually inviting structure. They pay tribute to the modern and clean graphic and geometric aesthetics advanced by Russian avant-garde artists from El Lissitzky to Rodchenko. Meier’s collages are held by the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Newfields.