• Richard Meier was born in

Newark, New Jersey on

October 12, 1934.

• Meier earned a Bachelor of

Architecture degree from Cornell

University in 1957.

• In 1965, He designed a

house for his parents in

Essex Fells, New Jersey, it

was one of the earliest

Completed projects by

Meier.

• In 1967, He Complete Smith House in Darien,

Connecticut, who later became a Typology that guided

the design of Private houses which he designed later.

• In 1970, He started the Project of Bronx

Developmental Center in The Bronx, New York, it

was one of the his earliest large buildings of

Alucobond.

• In 1973, He designed Douglas House in Harbor

Springs, Michigan, it had an interesting view so many

newspapers published articles about it.

• In 1979 He appeared to work in Museum for the

Decorative Arts In Frankfurt, Germany, the project

represented a starting point for Richard Meier because it

was the first European large project for him.

• In 1979, He designed The High Museum of Art in

Atlanta, Georgia.

• In 1984, at the age of 49 Meier

was awarded the Pritzker Prize

which awarded annually by the

Hyatt Foundation to honor "a

living architect whose built

work demonstrates a combination of

those qualities of talent, vision and

commitment, which has produced

consistent and significant contributions

to humanity and the built environment

through the art of architecture.

• In 1984, He designed

The Getty Center in

Los Angeles,

California, it is The

largest Meier project

At all, It took 13 years

to build (1984-1997).

• In 1988, Meier was awarded royal institute of British

Architects medal

• In 1989, He designed

Frankfurt Museum of

Ethnology in Frankfurt,

Germany. Meier described

this a project that he

regretted to not used its

design in most of his

buildings.

• Nowadays, Richard Meier

& Partners Architects has

offices in New York and

Los Angeles with current

projects ranging from

China to Paris, and he was

awarded more than 80

awards between 1968 and

2010.

• Richard Meier Architecture

went through many stages of

evolution, but eventually it

settles in the pattern which has

the following features:

1. in terms of Form:

2. in terms of Colors:

3. in terms of Materials:

4. in terms of Lighting:

International

Center for

Possibility

Thinking,

Garden

Grove,

California

Shenzhen

Housesm

Shenzhen,

China

Tianjin Villa,

Tianjin,

China

Burda

Museum,

Baden-

Baden,

Germany

International

Center for

Possibility

Thinking,

Garden

Grove,

California

Burda

Museum,

Baden-

Baden,

Germany

Bayer AG

Headquarters,

Leverkusen,

Germany

Barcelona

Museum of

Contemporary

Art,

Barcelona,

Spain

Avery Fisher

Hall

Competition,

Lincoln

Center, New

York,USA

Daimler-Benz

Research

Center, Ulm,

Germany

Daimler-Benz

Research

Center, Ulm,

Germany

Daimler-Benz

Research

Center, Ulm,

Germany

Burda

Museum,

Baden-

Baden,

Germany

Daimler-Benz

Research

Center, Ulm,

Germany

Kojaian

Apartment

New York,

USA

Siemens

Headquarters

Building,

Munich,

Germany