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The latest installment of Rizzoli's best-selling series of monographs on one of America's most important architects, Richard Meier, Architect Volume 4 documents Meier's work since the publication of the previous volume in 1999. This extensively illustrated presentation vividly conveys the purity and power of Meier's unique and celebrated vision. Twenty-seven residential, commercial, and civic projects are featured, including the 173/176 Perry Street residential towers in New York overlooking the Hudson River, perhaps the most celebrated new apartment buildings of our time; the Yale University History of Art and Arts Library in New Haven, Connecticut; and the Vatican-sponsored competition for his winning Jubilee Church of the year 2000 for the Vicariate of Rome. The development and significance of Richard Meier's work is discussed in two essays by the distinguished architectural historians and critics Kenneth Frampton and Joseph Rykwert. A biographical chronology and a selected bibliography complete this,elegant and comprehensive monograph on a modern American master.

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Library Journal Review

This gorgeous new addition to Rizzoli's series of monographs on Meier documents his work since the publication of the earlier volume in 1999. Featuring 27 private and public projects, it teems with Meier's vision, making it a fitting tribute to one of today's most acclaimed architects. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.

CHOICE Review

This is the fourth in a sequence of books (Richard Meier, Architect: [v.3:] 1992/1999, CH, Dec'00, 37-1957, 1999; 1985/1991, 1991; and 1964/1984, CH, Apr'85) documenting buildings and projects done by Meier and his firm since 1963, when he first established his practice in New York City. Since 1963, many books on Meier have been published. One is Buildings and Projects 1966-1976 (CH, Apr'77). The most notable may be Kenneth Frampton's Richard Meier (CH, Mar'04, 41-3864). One might think that because there has been such extensive coverage of Meier by academics as well as by the popular media, the architect himself would not need to prepare such a series of volumes as a record of his career. But what makes each of these volumes so valuable (and the fourth is no different in this respect from the first three) is that they assemble in one location all of Meier's preparatory drawings for each building and project, along with his comments on what he was trying to achieve with each commission. This is a handsome square quarto, beautifully illustrated and well designed by Massimo Vignelli, with essays by Frampton (Columbia Univ.) and Rykwert (Univ. of Pennsylvania). ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals; two-year technical program students. M. W. Sullivan Villanova University