Richard Meier, Architect Vol 7
Published on 24. October 2017
Book
Hardback
408 pages
978-0-8478-6033-3 (ISBN)
Description
This comprehensive volume documents Meier s work since 2011, featuring thirty residential, commercial, and civic projects in a variety of locales, including Manhattan, Beverly Hills, the Hamptons, Las Vegas, Hawaii, Mexico City, Tel Aviv, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo, among others. Extensively illustrated and was designed by the late renowned graphic designer Massimo Vignelli, it vividly conveys the purity and power of Meier s unique and celebrated vision. The development and significance of Meier s work is discussed in an authoritative introduction by the architectural historian Kenneth Frampton. The architect himself contributes a preface that offers firsthand insight into his thought processes and working methods. A biographical chronology and selected bibliography complete this exhaustive and lavish monograph on a modern American master.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
200 B/W PHOTOGRAPHS 200 COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS
Dimensions
Height: 261 mm
Width: 259 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
2432 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8478-6033-3 (9780847860333)
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Persons
Richard Meier began his career in the 1960s designing private residences. Since that time, his international practice has included museums, courthouses, city halls, corporate headquarters, educational facilities, and public housing. He has received numerous awards, including the Pritzker Architecture Prize and the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects. Kenneth Frampton is the author of numerous volumes, essays, and articles of architectural criticism and theory. He is the Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia University in New York.