Building the Getty - Hardcover

Meier, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375400435 ISBN 13: 9780375400438

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997

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The distinguished architect who designed the Getty Center offers an incisive look at this thirteen-year project, from the initial architect selection procedures, through the design of the California complex, to his involvement in the entire creative process. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

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Richard Meier's award-winning buildings include the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Canal + Television Headquarters in Paris, and the acclaimed Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona. He has received the highest honors in architecture, including the 1997 Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects and the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

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ca's most eminent architects tells us what it was like to undertake the architectural commission of the century: the building of the Getty Center in Los Angeles. Writing with wit and passion and in engrossing detail, Richard Meier takes us behind the scenes of the thirteen-year-long, one-billion-dollar project.

We follow Meier from 1957 when, just out of Cornell, he traveled to Europe for a grand tour and to seek work with two of his architectural heroes, Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto, and through to his early years in New York with Marcel Breuer. After Meier established his own private practice, we see him designing public housing and the private houses that expressed his distinctive modernist style of pure geometric line, of whiteness, and open spaces flooded with light. We also see him, in time, designing such important art centers as the Museum of Decorative Arts in Frankfurt, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona.

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0375400435
• ISBN 13: 9780375400438
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 204
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