Richard Meier: Architect, Vol 5

Richard Meier, Architect: Volume 5 comprehensively documents Meier's work since 2004. This extensively illustrated presentation, designed by renowned graphic artist Massimo Vignelli, vividly conveys the purity and power of Meier's unique and celebrated vision. Thirty residential, commercial, and civic projects in all are featured, including the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome, the Burda Collection Museum and Arp Museum in Germany, the San Jose City Hall, the Broad Art Center at UCLA, celebrated apartment towers in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The development and significance of Meier's work is discussed in an essay by the distinguished architectural historian Kenneth Frampton. The architect himself contributes a preface 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.