biography
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Meier, Richard (Alan)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1934– )
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| biography:
| Architect, born in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He studied at Cornell University and established a New York practice (1963) designing houses and housing projects, commercial buildings, and, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, museums. His Modernist designs were typically simple, often sculptural forms in which space is extended vertically and exteriors are painted white. He designed the Bronx Developmental Center (1970–6), the High Museum, Atlanta, and the new Getty Center, Brentwood, CA. In 1984 he was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize. |
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