ประวัติ Richard Meier

Name : Richard Meier
Profession : American architect
Birth Details : born October 12, 1934 in Newark, New Jersey

Richard Meier is well known and respected around the world for his architecture and designs. He has been awarded major commissions in the United States and Europe including courthouses, city halls, museums, corporate headquarters, housing and private residences. Some of his best-known projects include The Getty Center in Los Angeles, the High Museum in Atlanta, the Frankfurt Museum for Decorative Arts in Germany, the Canal Plus Television Headquarters in Paris, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, and the Atheneum in New Harmony, Indiana.

Recognized with the highest honors available in architecture, in 1997 he received the AIA Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects as well as the Praemium Imperiale from the Japanese Government, in recognition of a lifetime achievement in the arts. In 1995, he was elected Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the Deutscher Architekture Preis in 1993 and in 1992 the French Government awarded him with the honor of Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and in 1989, the Royal Institute of British Architects, of which he is a Fellow, awarded him the Royal Gold Medal.

In 1984, Mr. Meier was awarded the Pritzker Prize for Architecture, considered the field's highest honor. He was the youngest recipient of this award in the history of the prize. In the same year, Mr. Meier was selected architect for the prestigious commission to design the $1 billion Getty Center in Los Angeles, California.

Since receiving his architectural education at Cornell University, he has been awarded honorary degrees from the University of Naples, New Jersey Institute of Technology, The New School for Social Research, Pratt Institute and the University of Bucharest.

Mr. Meier has given numerous lectures throughout the world and participated in many juries. He has written and been the subject of many books and monographs and innumerable newspaper and magazine articles. In addition to being on the Board of Directors of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum and the American Academy in Rome, he is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the French and Belgian Academies d'Architecture, and a member of the Bund Deutscher Architekten and the American Academy of Arts & Letters, from which he received the Brunner Prize for Architecture in 1976.

Mr. Meier has taught at Cooper Union, Princeton University, Pratt Institute, Harvard University, Yale University and UCLA. He currently holds the Frank T. Rhodes Class of 1956 University Professorship at Cornell University. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and received a Medal of Honor from the New York Chapter in 1980 and the Gold Medal from the Los Angeles Chapter in 1998. His numerous design awards include 29 National AIA Honor Awards and 53 Regional AIA Design Awards.

................AWARDS...................

1972 American Academy and Institute of Arts and LettersThe Arnold Brunner Prize in Architecture
1980 American Institute of Architects New York Chapter Medal of Honor
1984 Pritzker Architecture Prize
1988 Royal Institute of British Architects, Royal Gold Medal
1991 Guild Hall Lifetime Achievement Award for Visual Arts
1992 Ministry of Culture of the French Republic"Commandeur, l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres"
1995 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellowship
1997 American Institute of Architects, Gold Medal

Praemium Imperiale
1998 American Institute of Architects Los Angeles Chapter Gold Medal
2000 American Institute of ArchitectsTwenty-Five Year Award for Smith House
2000 El Gobierno del Distrito Federal"Huesped Distinguido de la Ciudad de Mexico"
2003 New York Magazine Award for Architecture
2004 Sidney L. Strauss Award, New York Society of Architects

Pratt Legend Award

The Dedalo Minosse International Prize for Commissioning a Building - Quinquennial Honorary Award, Associazione Liberi Architetti

Frate Sole International Award for Sacred Architecture

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