Richard Meier Architect, Vol. 3 (1992-1998)
by Richard Meier, Kenneth Frampton, Joseph Rykwert
Richard Meier Architect, Vol. 3 (1992-1998) (Vol 3)
By Richard Meier, Kenneth Frampton, Joseph Rykwert
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Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: 1999-06-12
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0847819965
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780847819966
Binding: Hardcover
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Product Description:
The third volume in Rizzoli's bestselling monograph series on the eminent modernist presents 24 of his post -1985 masterworks, including the internationally acclaimed Getty Center arts and humanities complex in Los Angeles. Other projects documented in this significant survey include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona and the Church of the Year 2000, to be built in Rome.
Amazon.com:
While architectural styles keep changing, Richard Meier is a rock of constancy, holding fast to the forms and principles of classic 20th-century modernism. His pristine white buildings, precise and articulated, proclaim that rationality and clarity still have the power to impress us in an age of unfettered stylistic experimentation. Others may seize the role of Dionysus, but he is content to be Apollo.
This is the third installment of a series of monographs on Meier's architecture; the first volume was published in 1985. It records 23 works designed or completed between 1992 and 1999. The best known of these is the legendary Getty Center in Los Angeles, but that billion-dollar Wagnerian extravaganza has not distracted Meier from turning out many other impressive structures of large and small scale, including the Hague City Hall and Central Library, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Rachovsky House in Dallas. Two-thirds of the projects are in Europe or Asia, suggesting that America may not be taking full advantage of this native son's abilities.
This large-format, square book is handsomely assembled, with 444 pages and more than 650 well-reproduced color and black-and-white photos and finely honed line drawings. Essays by architectural historians Kenneth Frampton and Joseph Rykwert and a postscript by architect Arata Isozaki--all major figures in their fields--provide valuable analysis that completes this impressive volume. --John Pastier
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Summary: Verry Good
Rating: 5
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Summary: 25 selected projects from 1965 to 2000 in B&W
Rating: 4
Only ISBN: 1580930611 or ISBN: 1580930441 published by the Monacelli Press on 304 pages as an exhibition catalog with beautiful only B&W photos and drawings (many 3D) and minimal text.
FROM FRONT FLAP:
Over his thirty-five-year career Richard Meier has produced an internationally recognized body of work that reinterprets and recovers the ideals of modernism. With the completion of the landmark Getty Center in Los Angeles, Meier's distinct vision has emerged as architecture that is truly for our time. This catalog, accompanying a major exhibition organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (and traveling throughout the world), beautifully documents Meier's career with exquisite duotone photographs and the architect's own drawings, most of which have never been published.
Twenty-five of Meier's masterworks are featured, including the Smith House in Darien, Connecticut; the Douglas House, on the shores of Lake Michigan; the Museum for Decorative Arts in Frankfurt; the Canal+ Headquarters in Paris; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona; and the Getty Center. Current projects, including federal courthouses in Islip, New York, and Phoenix, Arizona, and the Church of the Year 2000 in Rome, are also presented.
A collection of insightful essays and commentaries by, among others, noted scholars Kenneth Frampton and Jean-Louis Cohen and architect Stan Allen illuminates various formal, theoretical, and practical issues at work in Meier's ever-evolving approach to the art of architecture. An extensively illustrated chronology of built and unbuilt work completes this first volume to document the entirety of Meier's extraordinary oeuvre.
CONTENTS:
Richard Koshalek and Dana Hutt 6
Introduction: Richard Meier, Light + Space Architect
Dana Hutt 8
Richard Meier's Working Space: The Uses of Abstraction
Stan Allen 12
Figures in an Urban Landscape: Meier at the Millennium
Kenneth Framp ton 28
Creative Repetition Jean-Louis Cohen 34
Smith House 40
Bronx Developmental Center 48
Douglas House 56
Olivetti Branch Office Prototype 66
The Atheneum 72
The Hartford Seminary 84
Frankfurt Museum for the Decorative Arts 94
High Museum of Art 108
Siemens Corporate Headquarters 118
The Getty Center 128
Westchester House 152
Ackerberg House 162
Grotta House 170
The Hague City Hall and Central Library 180
Ulm Exhibition and Assembly Building 190
Weishaupt Forum 200
Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art 208
Royal Dutch Paper Mills Headquarters 216
Madison Square Garden Site Redevelopment 224
Canal+ Headquarters 232
Rachofsky House 240
Islip Courthouse 248
Neugebauer House 254
Phoenix Courthouse 262
Church of the Year 2000 268
The Richard Meier Archive Lisa J. Green 276
Buildings and Projects 1960-1999 282
Selected Bibliography 302
Summary: Excellent Book of Richard Meier
Rating: 5
The Book is Great. If you love the style of Richard Meier, you sure would love this book too.
Summary: Must-have for Meier fans
Rating: 5
This 3rd in a series monograph by Rizzoli is a must-have addition to any serious architectural book library or to fans of Richard Meiers work. The numerous color photos are top rate, and together with a large number of drawings give a thorough overview of one of the top designers of today. The many photos in particular attest as to the successful completion of previously anticipated projects which have been in the pipeline, while new drawings herald new masterpieces to come.
Summary: Out-of-focus Black & White
Rating: 2
Do not confuse this Monacelli Press book with the latest Rizzoli book by the same name. This one is an "artsy cofee table book" with slightly out-of-focus artsy black and white photos of a limited selection of his projects, including some of his earlier houses as well as some of his latest works. Large two page photographs are shown, together with 3 or 4 smaller ones per project, in lieu of a more comprehensive exposition of their work. If you are looking for information on their current work or design ideas check out the Rizzoli books instead.
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