Editing Richard Meier (section)

==Career==
[[File:Richard Meier (1986).jpg|thumb|Richard Meier (1986)]]
In New York City, Meier worked briefly in 1959 for [[Skidmore, Owings and Merrill]], and then for three years for [[Marcel Breuer]] before starting his own firm in 1963.

In 1972, he was identified as one of [[The New York Five]], a group of modernist architects: Meier, [[Peter Eisenman]], [[Michael Graves]], [[Charles Gwathmey]], and [[John Hejduk]]. Early in his career, Meier worked with artists such as painter [[Frank Stella]] and favored structures that were white and geometric.<ref name=jodidio>{{cite book|last=Jodidio|first=Philip|title=Architecture: Art|url=https://archive.org/details/architectureart0000jodi|url-access=registration|year=2005|publisher=Prestel Verlag|location=New York|isbn=3-7913-3279-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/architectureart0000jodi/page/138 138]}}</ref>

Meier first gained recognition for his designs for various houses, for [[New Harmony's Atheneum|The Atheneum]], a visitors center in [[New Harmony, Indiana]] (completed 1979), and for the [[High Museum of Art]] in [[Atlanta]], Georgia (completed 1983).

[[File:GettyCenterGarden031903.jpg|thumb|Getty Center]]
Although Meier was an acclaimed architect for years, his design for the [[Getty Center]], a large museum complex in Los Angeles (completed 1997), brought him an elevated level of recognition. Other notable commissions from this period include museums such as the [[Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art]] in Spain (completed 1995) and the [[Paley Center for Media]] in [[Beverly Hills, California]] (completed 1996); [[The Hague City Hall|The Hague, The Netherlands]] City Hall (completed 1995) and [[San Jose City Hall]] (completed 2005); commercial buildings such as the reconstruction of [[City Tower (Prague)|City Tower]] in [[Prague, Czech Republic]] (completed 2008); and residential buildings such as [[173 and 176 Perry Street]] in the [[West Village]] of Manhattan (completed 2002) and [[Meier on Rothschild]] in [[Tel Aviv, Israel]] (completed 2015).

Today, MeierPartners has offices in New York and Los Angeles, with projects ranging from China and Tel Aviv to Paris and Hamburg.

Much of Meier's work builds on the work of architects of the early to mid-20th century, especially that of [[Le Corbusier]], particularly his early work. Meier is considered to have built more using Corbusier's ideas than anyone, including Le Corbusier himself.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Meier|title=Richard Meier {{!}} American architect|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=February 5, 2018|language=en}}</ref> Meier expanded many ideas evident in Le Corbusier's work, particularly the [[Villa Savoye]] and the Swiss Pavilion.

His work also reflects the influences of other designers such as [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe|Mies Van der Rohe]] and, in some instances, [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] and [[Luis Barragán]] (without the colour).<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Pritzker Architecture Prize|url=https://www.pritzkerprize.com/biography-richard-meier|access-date=August 6, 2021|website=www.pritzkerprize.com}}</ref> White has been used in many architectural landmark buildings throughout history, including cathedrals and the white-washed villages of the Mediterranean region, in Spain, southern Italy and Greece.

The Mayor of Rome, [[Gianni Alemanno]], included in his campaign platform a promise to tear down the large travertine wall of Meier's [[Museum of the Ara Pacis]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-italy-architecture/rome-mayor-aims-to-tear-down-richard-meier-museum-idUKL3079925520080430|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202071601/https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-italy-architecture/rome-mayor-aims-to-tear-down-richard-meier-museum-idUKL3079925520080430|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 2, 2018|title=Rome mayor aims to tear down Richard Meier museum|work=U.K.|access-date=February 1, 2018|language=en-GB}}</ref> Alemmano had agreed with Meier to modifications including drastically reducing the height of the wall between an open-air space outside the museum and a busy road along the Tiber river. The city plans are to build a wide pedestrian area along the river and run the road underneath it. "It's an improvement," says Meier, adding that "the reason that wall was there has to do with traffic and noise. Once that is eliminated, the idea of opening the piazza to the river is a good one." The mayor's office said Alemanno hoped to complete the project before the end of his term in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|date=April 7, 2010|url=http://www.france24.com/en/20100407-modern-scar-housing-roman-altar-be-modified|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730205418/http://www.france24.com/en/20100407-modern-scar-housing-roman-altar-be-modified|url-status=dead|title=Modern 'scar' housing Roman altar to be modified|website=France 24|archive-date=July 30, 2012|access-date=September 2, 2019}}</ref>

The new project of the underpass along the river Tevere has not progressed since then and in 2024 the area is unchanged.