Richard Meier. Architecture doesn’t happen quickly

As part of the Time-Space-Existence series, PLANE–SITE produced a short film with Richard Meier, one of the most recognized architects alive today. His work is known for bold, geometric buildings cast in luminous white, a color he believes enhances nature and refracts the world. Meier discusses his first ever black building, 685 First Avenue in New York, as well as his love of designing museums and buildings for public gathering, for enjoyment and for learning.

Part of the renowned New York Five group of Modernist architects, Richard Meier (b. 1934) has led his own practice since 1963. Over the course of his fifty-year career, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect has consistently placed formal clarity, light, and abstraction at the center of his work. Equally committed to pedagogy, Meier also advocates for the role of architecture in government, education, and community. He is best-known for the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia and the Jubilee Church in Rome.

Produced by PLANE–SITE, the video has been commissioned by the GAA Foundation and funded by the ECC in the run-up to the Time-Space-Existence exhibition during next Venice Architecture Biennale, opening May 2018.