THE FAMILY / Richard Meier

 

RICHARD MEIER is an American born architecture graduate of Cornell University. Based in both New York and Los Angeles, Mr. Meier has designed commercial and residential structures. Museums from Atlanta (High Museum), Georgia to Frankfurt (Museum for Decorative Arts), West Germany. Meier has also designed furniture for Knoll, Tableware for Swid-Powell and Alessi. He was a professor at Yale in 1975 and 1977 and visiting design critic at Harvard from 1980 to 1981. He was selected as the Pritzker Prize Laureate in 1984. He was commissioned in 1986 to do the J. Paul Getty Museum in Santa Monica, CA., completed in 1998.