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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, and The Hague City Hall.

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Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different.

Art, Museums, Different, Museum, Context

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

Rome, Cities, Frozen, Seen, Half, City

Whiteness allows the architectural ideas to be understood most clearly - the difference between opacity and transparency, solid and void, structure and surface. These things are more perceptible in a white environment. They have a greater clarity.

Clearly, Differences, Ideas, Surface, Transparency, White

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

Architecture, Create, Important, Polemics, Work

I was in Taiwan recently and was completely amazed by the density of population. It makes New York look like no one is out on the streets.

Density, Like, New York, Population, Recently, Taiwan

When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible.

Mother, Art, Believe, Asked, Connects

The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.

Needs, Lasts, Certain, Work, Longer

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

Responsibility, Order, Architecture, Sense, Relationship

It's important to understand differences in scale and environment.

Differences, Environment, Important, Scale

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

Thinking, People, Architecture, Discussion, Shows, Polemic

Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers.

Art, Civic, Enjoy, Museums, Views

We learn a lot, and each museum ends up having its own distinctive character and personality.

Character, Museums, Personality, Museum, Learn

When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light.

Light, Lives, Place, Sit, Space, Thinking

I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow.

Color, Rainbow, Think, Thinking, White

Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.

Night, Light, Doe, Merely, Architecture

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

Influence, History, Architectural, Escape

One of the real challenges, since we're working in so many places - Mexico, Japan, Brazil - is understanding variations, both in terms of culture and context.

Brazil, Japan, Real, Terms, Understanding, Working