AMERICAN ARCHITECT, WHOSE RATIONALIST BUILDINGS MAKE PROMINENT USE OF THE COLOR WHITE. WORKED FOR SKIDMORE, OWINGS AND MERRILL IN 1959, AND THEN FOR MARCEL BREUER , STARTING HIS OWN PRACTICE IN NEW YORK IN 1963. IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF THE NEW YORK FIVE IN 1972, HIS COMMISSION OF THE GETTY CENTER IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA CATAPULTED HIS POPULARITY INTO THE MAINSTREAM. MUCH OF MEIER'S WORK BUILDS ON THE WORK OF ARCHITECTS OF THE EARLY TO MID-20TH CENTURY, ESPECIALLY THAT OF LE CORBUSIER. IN 1984, MEIER WAS AWARDED THE PRITZKER PRIZE.
AMERICAN ARCHITECT, WHOSE RATIONALIST BUILDINGS MAKE PROMINENT USE OF THE COLOR WHITE. WORKED FOR SKIDMORE, OWINGS AND MERRILL IN 1959, AND THEN FOR MARCEL BREUER , STARTING HIS OWN PRACTICE IN NEW YORK IN 1963. IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF THE NEW YORK FIVE IN 1972, HIS COMMISSION OF THE GETTY CENTER IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA CATAPULTED HIS POPULARITY INTO THE MAINSTREAM. MUCH OF MEIER'S WORK BUILDS ON THE WORK OF ARCHITECTS OF THE EARLY TO MID-20TH CENTURY, ESPECIALLY THAT OF LE CORBUSIER. IN 1984, MEIER WAS AWARDED THE PRITZKER PRIZE.
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