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...Richard Meier will design the $100 million Getty arts complex
...months ago appointed a panel of seven experts, headed by Bill N. Lacy, president of New York City's Cooper Union design school, to conduct an extraordinary worldwide talent search. Now, based on the panel's recommendations, the trustees have announced their choice: America's Richard Meier...
...Manhattan-based Meier, 50, is an unrepentant modernist, an outstanding exponent of rational, functional architecture in the tradition of Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. "I am often labeled a disciple of Le Corbusier," Meier says. "Sure, I think he was the greatest architect of the century. But then I am also a disciple of Borromini, and I'm affected no less by Bramante and Bernini, whose work I studied in Rome." Indeed, both lines of influence are visible in Meier's work. His buildings reflect Le Corbusier's interplay of geometric forms, and they...
...Meier is best known for the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, which opened last year, a gleaming white tour de force with a majestic presence. It is the latest in a distinguished series of structures in which Meier's signature porcelain panels and white pipe railings are used with remarkable consistency and yet unflagging invention. Among the others: the Smith House in Darien, Conn. (1967); The Bronx Developmental Center for the mentally retarded (1976); and the Atheneum, a visitors' center at the restored Utopian community of New Harmony, Ind. (1979). Meier has also designed museums that...
Apparently, he doesn't. While calling for a move to a "higher moral plane," he provokes extremists such as Farrakhan and Meier Kahane and further damages any possibility of meaningful reconciliation. And by neglecting to hold all to the same moral standard, he damages his own credibility, turning calls for reconciliation into self-serving hypocrisy...