MEIER, Richard (Alan)

MEIER, Richard (Alan). American, b. 1934. Genres: Architecture, Autobiography/Memoirs. Career: Richard Meier and Associates, NYC, principal architect, 1963-80; Richard Meier and Partners, NYC, principal architect, 1980-. Architect with firms, 1957-63; Cooper Union, professor of architecture, 1962-73. Cornell University College of Art, Architecture and Planning, member of advisory council, 1971-; American Academy in Rome, resident architect, 1973-74; Yale University, William Henry Bishop visiting professor of architecture, 1975-77; Harvard University, visiting professor of architecture, 1977. Has participated in gallery and museum exhibitions. Publications: (with Charles Gwathmey, John Hejduk, and others) Five Architects, Wittenborn, 1972; Richard Meier, Architect, 1964-1976, introduction by Kenneth Frampton, afterword by Hejduk, Oxford University Press, 1976; Shards, illustrated by Frank Stella, Petersburg Press, 1983; Richard Meier, Architect 1964/1984, introduction by Joseph Rykwert, Rizzoli, 1985; Architektur-Zeichnungen 1971-1984, translated as Richard Meier: Architectural Drawings 1971-1984, edited by Rudolf Kicken and Suzanne E. Pastor, Rudolf Kicken Galerie (Cologne, Germany), 1985; (with Werner Blaser) Bauten fur die Kunst, translated by D. Q. Stephenson as Buildings for Art, Birkhauser (Basel, Switzerland, and Boston), 1990; Richard Meier, Architect, 1985/1991, with essays by Frampton and Rykwert, Rizzoli, 1991; (with Blaser) Weishaupt Forum, Richard Meier (trilingual edition; includes "On the New Weishaupt Forum-What Good Architecture Can Be"), Birkhauser, 1993. Contributor to Architecture, Shaping the Future: A Symposium and Exhibition with Ricardo Legorreta, Fumihiko Maki, Richard Meier, Richard Rogers, introduction by Allan Temko, edited by Suzy Ticho, University of California, San Diego, 1990. Works have appeared in German, French, and Italian editions. Address: 475 Tenth Ave., New York, NY 10018, U.S.A.