Richard Meier

Richard Meier Artist's Ed. edition

Richard Meier is one of the world's leading architects, whose formidable contribution both to private and public architecture, has been recently recognized by the Royal Gold Medal. This book presents a comprehensive selection of buildings and projects to date, together with speeches given by David Carson, Kenneth Frampton and Richard Meier himself at the RIBA Gold Medal presentation ceremony in 1988. A unique series of interviews between Richard Meier and Charles Jencks, conducted over a number of years, sets the work of Meier in an historical context. "Essentially Meier belongs to the Modern tradition of Enlightenment thinkers and Le Corbusier's white architecture, even though I would argue his is a late-Modern version of this movement. By contrast, the Post-Modern tradition emphasises creation within convention, public comprehensibility, ornament and symbolism and the reader will see that Meier has attacked this in the interviews and his RIBA Gold Medal Address": [Charles Jencks].