16 Facts About Richard Meier

Richard Meier was born on October 12,1934 and is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white.

Richard Meier was born to a Jewish family, the oldest of three sons of Carolyn and Jerome Richard Meier, a wholesale wine and liquor salesman, in Newark, New Jersey.

Richard Meier grew up in nearby Maplewood, where he attended Columbia High School.

Richard Meier earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1957.

Richard Meier is the second cousin of Peter Eisenman, an architect, theorist, and fellow member of The New York Five.

In New York City, Richard Meier worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill briefly in 1959, and then for Marcel Breuer for three years, prior to starting his own practice in 1963.

Early in his career, Richard Meier worked with artists such as painter Frank Stella and favored structures that were white and geometric.

Richard Meier first gained significant recognition for his designs of various residences, in addition to The Atheneum in New Harmony, Indiana and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia.

Richard Meier is considered to have built more using Corbusier's ideas than anyone, including Le Corbusier himself.

Richard Meier expanded many ideas evident in Le Corbusier's work, particularly the Villa Savoye and the Swiss Pavilion.

Richard Meier's work reflects the influences of other designers such as Mies Van der Rohe and, in some instances, Frank Lloyd Wright and Luis Barragan.

Richard Meier is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council.

Richard Meier was awarded the AIA Gold Medal in 1997.

In 2014, Richard Meier opened a 15,000-square-foot exhibition space museum at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City.

Richard Meier responded by saying that he would take a leave of six months from his firm.

Major works by Richard Meier include the High Museum in Atlanta, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Richard Meier on Rothschild, and On Prospect Park.