   richard meier (born october 12, 1934) is an american abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. a winner of the pritzker architecture prize in 1984, some of his more iconic buildings include the barcelona museum of contemporary art and the getty center in los angeles. ==biography== ===life=== meier was born as the oldest of three sons of jerome meier, wholesale wine and liquor salesman,pranay gupte (november 17, 2005), lunch at the four seasons with: richard meier new york sun. and carolyn kaltenbacher in newark, new jersey.tempest, rone. "america's designs on europe top quality u.s. architectural firms, feeling the pinch at home, are finding work in europe-and are snapping up some of the most sought-after projects.", los angeles times, august 25, 1992. accessed september 19, 2008. "when the canal plus building was under construction, meier said he had 17 american staffers on the ground supervising the work. but the lopsided european proportion of his recent workload has concerned the silver-haired, newark, n.j.-born architect." he grew up in nearby maplewood,hilarie m. sheets (january 24, 2014), architect goes home, to recall and to work new york times. where he attended columbia high school. he earned a bachelor of architecture degree from cornell university in 1957. after graduation, he traveled to israel, greece, germany, france, denmark, finland and italy, among other places, to network with architects. meier is also the second cousin of the architect, theorist, and fellow member of the new york five, peter eisenman. thumb|left|getty center ===career=== meier worked for skidmore, owings and merrill briefly in 1959, and then for marcel breuer for three years, prior to starting his own pr
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