The latest installment of Rizzoli International Publications best-selling series of monographs on one of America's most important architects, Richard Meier, Architect: Volume 5 documents Meier's work since the publication of the previous volume in 2004. This extensively illustrated presentation, composed by renowned graphic designer Massimo Vignelli, vividly conveys the purity and power of Meier's unique and celebrated vision. Thirty-two residential, commercial, and civic projects in all are featured, including the Arp Museum in Germany, the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome, the San Jose City Hall, the Broad Art Center at UCLA, and new master plans for Newark, New Jersey, and Manhattan's East Side. The development and significance of Richard Meier's work is discussed in two essays by the distinguished architectural historian Kenneth Frampton and celebrated critic Paul Goldberger, and famed artist Frank Stella provides a personal postscript. A professional chronology and selected bibliography complete this elegant and comprehensive monograph on a true modern American master.
