Richard Meier, Architect, Vol 5

Richard Meier's buildings represent the absolute pinnacle of late-20th- and early-21st-centurymodernist design, and this new volume on his most recent work will be of greatinterest to anyone with a love of architecture, design, style, and art. Richard Meier, Architect: Volume 5 comprehensively documents Meier's work since 2004. This extensively illustrated presentation,designed by renowned graphic artist Massimo Vignelli, vividly conveys the purity and power of Meier's unique and celebratedvision. Thirty residential, commercial, and civic projects in all are featured, including the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome, theBurda Collection Museum and Arp Museum in Germany, the San Jose City Hall, the Broad Art Center at UCLA, celebratedapartment towers in Manhattan and Brooklyn. and master plans for Newark, New Jersey, and Manhattan's East Side. The development and significance of Meier's work is discussed in an essay by the distinguished architectural historian KennethFrampton. The architect himself contributes a preface offers firsthand insight into his thought processes and working methods. Abiographical chronology and selected bibliography complete this exhaustive and lavish monograph on a modern Americanmaster.