Publisher's Synopsis
Richard Meier is a highly regarded contemporary American architect, pursuing transparency and sublime abstraction of space and form. His formal position was established early on with American buildings such as the Douglas House and the Atheneum. Then, in the early 1980s, Meier began working in Europe, initially with the Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts.;This text examines each stage of Meier's life in turn, offering a thematic approach to his buildings and designs. Five essays on Meier's career are interspersed with presentations of his houses and urban projects, offering a visual and typological appraisal of his work. The book also sets out to demonstrate Meier's continuing development as a significant modern architect.
