Richard Meier, Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate, returns to Cornell for his fourth visit as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor, March 4-7.
Meier, who recently was named designer of Cornell's future life science technology building, will deliver a free public lecture titled "The New Museum" Wednesday, March 6, at 4:45 p.m. in Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall. No tickets are required. He will discuss the museums he has designed through his firm Richard Meier & Partners. These include: The Getty Center (Los Angeles), Museum of Contemporary Art (Barcelona), High Museum of Art (Atlanta) and Museum for Decorative Arts (Frankfurt).
While on campus, Meier will give a master class titled "Mass vs. Surface" for graduate and undergraduate architecture thesis students. The topic will include discussion of the meaning and reinterpretation of the modernist white surface in the work of his architectural firm.
Meier received his architectural training at Cornell's Department of Architecture, earning his in B.Arch. from Cornell in 1957.
Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professors are appointed for one year to five years and are considered full members of Cornell's faculty. They meet with students and faculty and are in residence on campus for at least two weeks during each year of their appointments. Meier inaugurated the professorship in 2000 when he accepted a five-year term.
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