Richard Meier

When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts.…

— Richard Meier

Winning the competition for Frankfurt's Museum of Applied Art in '79 opened the door to a number of projects in Europe, especially…

— Richard Meier

The world has changed a great deal from when I began 50 years ago. I was very fortunate. There were a lot…

— Richard Meier

“The stunted pines elude capture in a thousand sidetracked increments. The wind will never understand them. Like us it is forced to…

— Richard Meier

Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow…

— Richard Meier

Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're…

— Richard Meier

For me [ Giovanni Lorenzo ] Bernini, [Francesco ] Borromini, and [Donato] Bramante have been as significant as Alvar Aalto, Frank Lloyd…

— Richard Meier

The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.

— Richard Meier

If I had my druthers, I would do a lot more.

— Richard Meier

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested,…

— Richard Meier

We think about project's public nature and how that can be enhanced, how the spaces we create can enliven the experience of…

— Richard Meier

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

— Richard Meier

It's important to understand differences in scale and environment.

— Richard Meier

We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante,…

— Richard Meier

I was in Taiwan recently and was completely amazed by the density of population. It makes New York look like no one…

— Richard Meier

We learn a lot, and each museum ends up having its own distinctive character and personality.

— Richard Meier

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

— Richard Meier

I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow.

— Richard Meier

When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all…

— Richard Meier

We look at each one [project] and consider the context - what it is and what it can be - beyond the…

— Richard Meier

One of the real challenges, since we're working in so many places - Mexico, Japan, Brazil - is understanding variations, both in…

— Richard Meier

Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different.

— Richard Meier

Whiteness allows the architectural ideas to be understood most clearly - the difference between opacity and transparency, solid and void, structure and…

— Richard Meier

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

— Richard Meier

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

— Richard Meier