Editing Richard Meier (section)

==Early life and education==
Meier was born to a [[American Jews|Jewish]] family,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.forward.com/bintel-blog/115929/architect-richard-meier-s-jewish-inspirations/ |website=Jewish Daily Forward |title=Architect Richard Meier's Jewish Inspirations |first=Benjamin |last=Ivry |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722172413/http://blogs.forward.com/bintel-blog/115929/architect-richard-meier-s-jewish-inspirations/ |archive-date=July 22, 2015 |date=October 2, 2009}}</ref><ref>[http://www.architecturaldigest.com/architecture/2013-05/architect-richard-meier-interview-article Architectural Digest: "Q+A: ARCHITECT RICHARD MEIER"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722011147/http://www.architecturaldigest.com/architecture/2013-05/architect-richard-meier-interview-article |date=July 22, 2015 }} Interview by Henry Urbach – May 2013</ref><ref>[http://jewishcurrents.org/a-golden-age-of-jewish-architects-36001 Jewish Currents: "A Golden Age of Jewish Architects" by Abbott Gorin]{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Spring 2015</ref> the oldest of three sons of Carolyn (Kaltenbacher) and Jerome Meier, a wholesale wine and liquor salesman,<ref name="pranaygupte.com">Pranay Gupte (November 17, 2005), {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20200815133403/http://www.pranaygupte.com/article.php?index=401 Lunch at The Four Seasons with: Richard Meier]}} ''[[New York Sun]]''.</ref> in [[Newark, New Jersey]].<ref>Tempest, Rone. [https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61613716.html?dids=61613716:61613716&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT "America's Designs on Europe Top quality U.S. architectural firms, feeling the pinch at home, are finding work in Europe-and are snapping up some of the most sought-after projects."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130411182534/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/61613716.html?dids=61613716:61613716&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT |date=April 11, 2013 }}, ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', August 25, 1992. Accessed September 19, 2008. "When the Canal Plus building was under construction, Meier said he had 17 American staffers on the ground supervising the work. But the lopsided European proportion of his recent workload has concerned the silver-haired, Newark, N.J.-born architect."</ref> He grew up in nearby [[Maplewood, New Jersey|Maplewood]],<ref name="nytimes.com">Hilarie M. Sheets (January 24, 2014), [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/25/arts/design/richard-meier-is-now-focusing-on-new-jersey-projects.html Architect Goes Home, to Recall and to Work] ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref> where he attended [[Columbia High School (New Jersey)|Columbia High School]]. He earned a [[Bachelor of Architecture]] degree from [[Cornell University]] in 1957.<ref>{{cite book|title=Design of the 20th Century|first1=Charlotte|last1=Fiell|first2=Peter|last2=Fiell|publisher=Taschen|location=Köln|edition=25th anniversary|year=2005|page=459|isbn=9783822840788|oclc=809539744}}</ref>

After graduating from Cornell, Meier traveled to [[Denmark]], [[Finland]], France, Germany, [[Greece]], [[Israel (region)|Israel]], and Italy, among other places, to network with architects.<ref name="pranaygupte.com"/>

Meier is a second cousin of [[Peter Eisenman]], an architect, theorist, and fellow member of [[The New York Five]].