Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.
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Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
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Birth: | 12th October, 1934 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Architect |
Richard Meier is an American architect, whose rationalist buildings make prominent use of the color white. Meier is Jewish and was born in Newark, New Jersey. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1957, worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill briefly in 1959, and then for Marcel Breuer for three years, prior to starting his own practice in New York in 1963.
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