Richard Meier, Architect Vol 7

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Meier ranks as one of the absolute superstars of international architects, along with figures such as Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Renzo Piano, and Tadao Ando. This new volume on his most recent work will be of great interest to architects and students of architecture and art. This is Rizzoli's seventh volume in the best-selling, authorized, and definitive series of monographs on the work of Richard Meier, one of America's most important and acclaimed architects.

Richard Meier began his career in the early 1960s designing private residential projects whose elegant modernist style and white facades have become icons of modern architecture. Since that time, his international practice has included museums, courthouses, city halls and corporate headquarters, and has received numerous awards, including the Pritzker Prize for Architecture and the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects. Kenneth Frampton is the author of numerous volumes, essays, and articles of architectural criticism and theory. Peter Eisenman is an internationally recognized and award-winning architect and educator.