Transcript AR 409 Contemporary World Architecture RICHARD MEIER chandni soni b arch IV m e i e r r i c h a r d white is.

AR 409
Contemporary World Architecture
RICHARD MEIER
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white is the most beautiful colour …….within it you can see all the colours of the
rainbow ... the whiteness of the white is never just white; it is almost always
transformed by light and that which is changing; the sky, the clouds, the sun, and
the moon
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biography
• Meier 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
• Then for Marcel Breuer for three years
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• Started his own practice in New York in 1963.
• Identified as one of The New York Five in 1972
• His commission of the Getty Center in Los Angeles,
California catapulted his popularity among the
mainstream.
• Richard Meier & Partners Architects has offices in
New York and Los Angeles with current projects
ranging from China and Tel Aviv to Paris and Hamburg.
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accomplishments
• In 1984, Mr. Richard Meier was awarded the
Pritzker Architecture Prize
•. In the same year, he was selected architect for the
prestigious commission to design the new $1 billion
Getty Center in Los Angeles, California.
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• Included in "New York Five", alongside
Peter Eisenman, John Hejduk, Michael Graves,Charles
Gwathmey
• In 1997, he was awarded the AIA Gold Medal
• Meier is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures
Council
• Praemium Imperiale from Japenese Government
• Honorary degrees from various institutes
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design philosophy
• Richard Meier usually designs white Neo-Corbusian forms with enameled panels and
glass.
• These structure usually play with the linear relationships of ramps and handrails.
• Although all have a similar look, Richard Meier manages to generate endless variations
on his singular theme
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design philosophy
Three most significant concepts : Light, Color and Place.
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His work also reflects the
influences of other designers such
as Mies Van der Rohe and,
in some instances, Frank Lloyd
Wright
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Plain geometry, layered definition of spaces and effects of light and shade, used to
create clear and comprehensible spaces.
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projects
• Smith House, Darien, Connecticut,
1965–1967
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• Bronx Developmental Center, The Bronx, New
York, 1976
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High Museum of Art,
Atlanta, Georgia,
1983
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Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art,
Barcelona, Spain,
1995
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Getty Center, Los Angeles, California, 1997
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projects
Jubilee Church, Rome, Italy 2003
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projects
Italcementi ITC Laboratory, Italy, 2005-09
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Brodrum Houses, Turkey
2007-10
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atheneum
• The Atheneum (1975-1979)
• It received the 2008 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Twenty-five Year Award.
• Tourist and Information Center
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• Situated on the banks of the Wabash River on the outskirts of the historic city of New
Harmony.
It functions as
• the starting point for tours
• a center for visitor orientation and cultural community events
• and it houses exhibits on the communal history of New Harmony,
• a large theatre, and the Museum Shop.
• The Atheneum’s galleries also accommodate receptions and meetings, allowing the
structure to participate in the vitality of the community.
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Visitors arriving by boat, land on a path that leads through a field to the building
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• A three story plane set at forty-five degree inclination to the podium,
acknowledges the point of arrival
• Setting the three-story building diagonally to the river, gives the project a dynamic
dimension as a departure point for the tour path
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• Once the visitor crosses the
threshhold, the entry box
propels him to the internal
circulation ramp.
• From here, the internal
circulation to the building is a
continuous experience.
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Ground level plan
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First level plan
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Second level plan
•From the exhibiton space, on the second
level, the visitor can look back to the route
he has travelled, through staggered interior
slots and windows as essential elements.
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• The uppermost roof terrace
presents a panoramic vista of the
town
• Visitors descend by the way of a
second ramp,
this one elongated and stepped,
an uncoiled version of the interior
one, leading out of the building into
New Harmony.
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• Here, "sense of place" is achieved
through a series of visual, physical or
psychological experiences which
gradually establish a relationship to
the past, represented by the historic
city.
• Porcelain panels,
clear glass,
constant play of wall thickness,
the breadth of vistas,
the height of the columns and
openings which interconnect with
one another,
all create dynamic facades that
change according to the interior and
exterior experience of the building.
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thank you
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