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Richard Meier

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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, Meier has designed several iconic buildings including the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and San Jose City Hall. In 2018, some of Meier's employees accused him of sexual assault, which led to him resigning from his firm in 2021. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Meier is the 54th most popular architect, the 881st most popular biography from United States (down from 616th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Architect.

Richard Meier is most famous for his minimalist architectural style. He is best known for his public buildings, including the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Jubilee Church in Rome.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Richard Meier ranks 54 out of 518. Before him are Marcel Breuer, Arnolfo di Cambio, Jean Nouvel, Christopher Wren, Louis Le Vau, and Aldo Rossi. After him are Álvaro Siza Vieira, Arne Jacobsen, Jože Plečnik, Isidore of Miletus, Arno Breker, and Domenico Fontana.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Richard Meier ranks 43. Before him are Larisa Latynina, Paul Cohen, Empress Michiko, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Alexei Leonov, and Bengt I. Samuelsson. After him are Georges Moustaki, Louise Fletcher, Bill Bixby, Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler, Niklaus Wirth, and Alan Arkin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Meier ranks 881 out of 20,380. Before him are J. D. Tippit (1924), Robert Kardashian (1944), Richard F. Heck (1931), Charles Bolden (1946), Paul Simon (1941), and Richard F. Gordon Jr. (1929). After him are Robert R. Livingston (1746), Herbert Spencer Gasser (1888), Don Johnson (1949), William Standish Knowles (1917), Frances E. Allen (1932), and Alan J. Heeger (1936).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Richard Meier ranks 4. Before him are Buckminster Fuller (1895), Louis Sullivan (1856), and Frank Lloyd Wright (1867). After him are Philip Johnson (1906), Robert Venturi (1925), Minoru Yamasaki (1912), Peter Eisenman (1932), William Le Baron Jenney (1832), Charles Eames (1907), Nicholas Negroponte (1943), and Adrian Smith (1944).

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