Edgar Almaguer <br/><br/>
Richard Meier Architect / 

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 - Estados Unidos   Rizzoli  2013 
 - 467 páginas   Ilustraciones, Tablas y Gráficas   25cm de ancho X 25cm de largo  
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<br/><br/>Incluye Referencias Bibliográficas  
<br/><br/>Contents<br/><br/>Preface by Richard Meier B<br/><br/>Meter at 80 An Architect Without Borders by Kenneth Frampton 10<br/><br/>Works from 2009 to 2013<br/><br/>United States Courthouse IB<br/><br/>Colice Plaza 12<br/><br/>Italcement lab 42<br/><br/>Rothschild Tower 64<br/><br/>Oxfordshire Residence 70<br/><br/>Bodrum Houses 90<br/><br/>Luxembourg House 110<br/><br/>Jesolo Lido Condominium 128<br/><br/>Jesolo Lido Hotel 144<br/><br/>Gagosian Gallery Expansion 150<br/><br/>Liberty Plaza 162 OCT Sharurbhien Clubhouse 174<br/><br/>New Pacific Realty Headquarters 204<br/><br/>Teachers Village 210<br/><br/>Harumi Residential Towers 220<br/><br/>Kanat Retreat 234<br/><br/>City Green Court 250<br/><br/>Exaar Steel Visitors Center 268<br/><br/>Dune Road Residence 280<br/><br/>Gardone Villa 292<br/><br/>Haval Alberta Museum 304<br/><br/>Montagnola Residence 318<br/><br/>ENI Headquarters 330<br/><br/>Hyundai Hotel Gyeongpodae 346<br/><br/>Lelion Offers 362<br/><br/>Makah Office Tower 370<br/><br/>Tedinology Training Campus Master Plan 384 Taichung Condominium Tower 396<br/><br/>Hoster Villas 404 Me de la Romanité 426<br/><br/>Richard Meier, FAIA, FRIBA 445<br/><br/>Chronology 446<br/><br/>Hichard Meier & Partners Model Archive 458<br/><br/>Bibliography 464<br/><br/>Collaborators 466<br/><br/>Consultants 467<br/><br/>lustration Credits 468 
<br/><br/> Preface<br/><br/>Richard Meier April 2013<br/><br/>The L sellim archit work The grap PANE read hom a pul<br/><br/>The compilation of the work documented in this book coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of my work as an architect. Being an architect had always been a lifelong dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of fourteen "What do you want to do when you grow up?" and answering I wanted to be an architect, that after fifty years I would still be learning what all that means. Working together with a group of extremely talented people has been enormously gratifying, and being an architect means being a member of a fantastic team.<br/><br/>I studied architecture at Cornell University, and after working in the offices of Davis Brody, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; and Marcel Breuer. I started my own practice in my studio apartment in New York City. A year later, in 1967, I received a commission to design the Smith House in Connecticut, a project which marked the beginning of my career. The opportunity to design and build this house clarified my ideas about the making of space, and the house attracted a certain amount of attention that made it possible to take on additional projects. After winning the competition for Frankfurt's Museum of Applied Art in 1979, we were asked to design a number of new projects in Europe and the United States.<br/><br/>Over the years there have been so many things that have been important to my work as an architect. We look at each project and consider the context-what it is and what it can be-beyond the strictly functional concerns. We think about its public nature and how that can be enhanced, how the spaces we create can enliven the experience of being there. As we develop our first projects in eleven countries, including England, China, Israel, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil, and South Korea, one of the biggest challenges we have faced working in so many different places is understanding variations, both in terms of culture and context.<br/><br/>In my acceptance speech for the 1984 Pritzker Prize I said that "mine is a preoccupation with light and space; not abstract space, 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978-0-8478-4230-8 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LCC