Richard Meier，Architect：Volume 5 comprehensively documents Meier's work since 2004.This extensively illustrated presentation vividly conveys the purity and power of Meier's vision.Thirty residential，commercial，and civic projects are featured.Richard Meier received his architectural training at Cornell University and began his career in the early 1960s designing private residential projects whose elegant modernist style and white facades have become icons of modern architecture.Since that time，his international practice has included museums，courthouses，city halls，corporate headquarters，educational facilities，and public housing，in addition to private houses.He has received numerous awards for his work，including the Pritzker Prize for Architecture and the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects.

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 Meiers 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.eommercial，and civic projects in all are featured，including the Arp Museum in Germanv.the Ara Pacis Musemn m 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.

Preface by Richard Meier

Style Is a Word That Has No Plural by Kenneth Frampton

Private Buildings and Projects

 Joy Apartment

 Malibu Beach House

 165 Charles Street

 On Prospect Park

 Southern Florida House

 Houses in Shenzhen

 Rickmers House

 Fifth Avenue Apartment

 Luxembourg House

 Bodrum Houses

 Tianjin Villa

Public Buildings and Projects

 Arp Museum

 Ara Pacis Museum

 San Jose City Hall

 Eli & Edythe Broad Art Center，UCLA

 Burda Collection Museum

 Peek and Cloppenburg Department Store

 Weill Hall，Cornell University

 ECM City Tower

 Feldmtthleplatz Office Building

 Jesolo Lido Village，Condominium，and Hotel

 Saint-Denis Office Development

 United States Courthouse，San Diego

 East River Master Plan

 Coffee Plaza

 9900 Wilshire

 Italcementi ITC Laboratory

 Forstmann Little and IMG Headquarters

 Rothschild Tower

 SoMa Newark Master Plan

 Tianjin Hotel

 Beethoven Festspielhaus

 Afterword by Paul Goldberger

 Postscript by Frank Stella

 Richard Meier Biography

 Chronology

 Richard Meier & Partners Model Museum

 Bibliography

 Collaborators

 Consultants

 Illustration Credits