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Richard Meier - My small-scale work influenced my large-scale projects (10/36)

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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2017 · Science & Technology

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Born in 1934, the prominent American architect Richard Meier is best known for the Getty Centre in Los Angeles. In all his work he refuses to bend to the trends of modern architecture. He has won many awards including the Pritzker Prize for Architecture, considered the field's highest honor. [Listener: Massimo Vignelli; date recorded: 2004]

TRANSCRIPT: I began by doing houses and then got this you know, larger public work but at the same time, all the... you know, I was always doing houses, so it’s always a relationship of the small-scale work and the large-scale work. I think that in some ways that was very good because we never lost, sort of, a sense of human scale in the large-scale world because you’re dealing with houses and designing the things that go into the houses. You know, you’re always conscious of every single element and I made sure that was also true in the large-scale work, that every single element was considered as part of the whole. And so the attention to detail and the, sort of, maniacal concentration on how every single thing is made is part of, I think, the practice as has developed over the years.

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