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Richard Meier, Architect: Volume 8 comprehensively documents Meier
s work since 2017. This extensively illustrated presentation
vividly conveys the purity and power of Meier s unique and
celebrated vision. Thirty residential, commercial, and civic
projects are featured in a dazzling variety of scales and locales,
including Manhattan, Los Angeles, the Hamptons, Las Vegas, Mexico
City, Tel Aviv, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo, among many other venues.
The development and significance of Meier s work is discussed in
authoritative essays by the distinguished architectural historian
and curator Kurt W. Forster and world-renowned architect Alberto
Campo Baeza. The architect himself contributes a preface that
offers firsthand insight into his thought processes and working
methods. A biographical chronology and selected bibliography
complete this exhaustive and lavish monograph on a modern American
master.
A comprehensive survey of the work of a master of modernist design
today. Alberto Campo Baeza, one of contemporary architecture s most
distinguished voices, is renowned for a body of work that exudes
the power of radical simplicity. The architectural ideas expressed
in his buildings have ranged in scale from such small but beautiful
residential structures as the Ture?gano, Gaspar, and De Blas houses
to cultural facilities such as Andalucia s Museum of Memory in
Granada, an addition to his earlier achievement, the Caja General
Bank Headquarters. All share an uncompromising dedication to simple
composition and demonstrate the ways in which he so brilliantly
deploys disciplined restraint to achieve architectural silence in
the face of the clamor of the modern city. This monograph features
projects spanning four decades of international architectural
practice. Contributions by Richard Meier and David Chipperfield
offer critical commentary on Campo Baeza s persistent quest for
beauty and relevance through his adherence to simplicity and a
deeply felt devotion to modernist principles of architecture.
Richard Meier's first collection of poetry, Misadventure, won many
admirers for its wry, wise and sharp-eyed insight into the minutiae
of daily life. This, his second, Search Party, casts its net more
widely - and looks at our experiences of being lost to others, as
well as lost from ourselves. Many of the poems in this collection
explore attempts to repair severed connections, or to forge links
never properly established: from a father's desperate search for
his son missing at sea, to a child's reaction to being denied a
responsive gaze, and a footballer's sublime (if optimistic) pass to
a teammate - these poems address the nature of the distances
between us. Most importantly, they also show the lengths to which
we will go to ensure that these distances are closed, and that the
most basic of our needs are met: to be seen, to be recognized - and
ultimately, sought out and found by one another.
In the poem-essays that comprise A Duration, writing is a physical
act where writing and lived experience support one another in
bodies—animal, plant, mineral, and word bodies—that are injured
and heal, that die and continue in new forms, playing new
roles. Here, in his fifth book, Richard Meier transmutes
years of daily practices of attention—be it to a line spoken by
Lear’s Fool, a train to Kingston, or “red inside green
stem below eight white petals in a spiral with space between them
attached to the yellow center”—into mesmerizing trajectories
through an always unfolding present. In the collapse of the border
between writing and the body, A Duration, “play[s] both hearts
with a heartbeat and kinship of place, time, mundanity in the
continuous onrushing imagined joy.”
The city of Barcelona has been known since the early twentieth
century as the home of Art Nouveau. Now it has also become a center
for contemporary international architecture. This follow-up to "In
Detail: Barcelona Art Nouveau" looks at the most notable buildings
of the last 10 years, with detailed photographic reports on Josep
Llums Mateo's Barcelona Convention Center, Richard Meier's Museum
of Contemporary Art, Carles Ferrater's Botanical Gardens and
Institute, Rafael Moneo's Barcelona Auditorium concert hall, Herzog
& de Meuron's Forum Building, Josep Llins's block of buildings
in the Fort Pienc neighborhood, EMBT's Santa Caterina Market,
Clotet & Paricio's Forum-area retirement home and Jean Nouvel's
Agbar Tower. The complexity of this new generation of structures,
and the variety of local and international talent on view, are
auspicious signs for the Barcelona of the twenty-first century.
"Basking in the twilight of Late Romanticism, Meier . . . finds the
rays seductive but damaging . . . Meier's sophisticated debut
promises further developments."--"Publishers Weekly" on "Terrain
Vague"
Domesticity, nature, and heartbreak inhabit this seriously playful
second collection. Through precise description and inventive
vocabulary, Meier's poems are relentless in their efforts to
sincerely address contemporary uncertainty and love. A great book
for readers looking to rediscover Romantic poetry: ""Embrace" was a
word first used of forts, / until the one body fell down inside the
other body, and was lost."
This comprehensive volume documents Meier s work since 2011,
featuring thirty residential, commercial, and civic projects in a
variety of locales, including Manhattan, Beverly Hills, the
Hamptons, Las Vegas, Hawaii, Mexico City, Tel Aviv, Rio de Janeiro,
and Tokyo, among others. Extensively illustrated and was designed
by the late renowned graphic designer Massimo Vignelli, it vividly
conveys the purity and power of Meier s unique and celebrated
vision. The development and significance of Meier s work is
discussed in an authoritative introduction by the architectural
historian Kenneth Frampton. The architect himself contributes a
preface that offers firsthand insight into his thought processes
and working methods. A biographical chronology and selected
bibliography complete this exhaustive and lavish monograph on a
modern American master.
A 'vessel for living' - such were the words Glenn Adamson used to
describe this remarkable residence. Richard Meier designed the
Grotta home to house Sandra and Louis Grotta's collection of
contemporary studio jewellery and significant works in wood,
ceramic and fibre. The building was conceived around the
collection, framing the objects within the open architecture, which
comprises an equal blend of glass and concrete. Nature, visible
from many vantage points, plays an essential supporting role. The
Grotta Home by Richard Meier: A Marriage of Architecture and Craft
is rich in photographs of the collection and provides impressive
insights into this exceptionally personal project. The accompanying
essays afford the reader a greater sense of how the Grottas have
not simply acquired art, but have immersed themselves in it.
In the Pure Block of the Whole Imaginary pushes past the line and
the fragment and toward the sentence, the thought trying to
complete, the paragraph, a distinct passage. The poems, most a
single paragraph, are comprised of several of the many things a
paragraph is said to consist of, including, according to the OED:
"a distinct passage or section of a text, usually composed of
several sentences, dealing with a particular point, a short episode
in a narrative, a single piece of direct speech, etc." The first
poem in the project, though no longer the first in the book, was
written while reading Francis Ponge's amazing The Making of Le Pre,
which reproduces his notes toward the poem Le Pre alongside a
translated type-written transcription. The form of the
notes--crammed into every corner of the page, gathering
observation, research, reading, quotations, anecdote--suggested a
more inclusive way to think and write. The book, with its not-quite
50 prose poems, is also an imaginary completion, an echo or a
shadow or shade, of Baudelaire's planned 100 Petits poemes en
prose. The book, then, became a project only after the fact, or in
response to the fact, of the poems' emergence. The opening of each
section--the first few words from each poem in that
section--operate as a kind of descriptive table of contents for
each section and also a poem of sorts, as those chapter headings
often were novels of the past.
Misadventure won the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize, and is Richard
Meier's first collection. Misadventure is a book about what we
learn, and what we refuse to learn: although Meier's poems are
often deceptively quiet in their address, the reader will soon
discover a poet capable of illuminating the darkest corners of our
lives by the very lightest of touches, and an ear simultaneously
attuned to the lyric poem and the cadence of real speech. The
collection also contains some disarmingly tender poetry on the
experience of fatherhood. Misadventure is about all the hope and
hopelessness lurking just below the surface of things, in our
rooms, tables, coats and gardens - and leaves them enriched and
strange, under the transforming eye of a fine new talent.
This book provides a fascinating history of the planning, design,
and construction of the six-building Getty Center in Los Angeles,
one of the great cultural complexes to be built in our time.
Writing with wit and passion, Richard Meier takes us behind the
scenes of the thirteen-year-long, one-billion-dollar project.
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