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Richard Meier - The Bronx Developmental Center (7/36)

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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: That too was, as I remember, they were building different hospitals around the state and it was a state financed project and which I remember going up and they said, would you be interested? And I said, yes. But actually, initially that project was designed to be twice as big but because of budget restrictions, they cut it back, which was just as well.

[MV] It's huge already.

It's huge.

[MV] And it's interesting the way you approached from a very industrial point of view, you know, the windows...

Well, it seemed to me, you know, that was the beginning of a whole investigation into pre-fabricated parts in terms of building materials.  Because it had seemed quite natural that, I mean, we were not going to build it out of brick. We’d need a bigger brick and so the metal panels started to be sort of like a unitised way of building. And we had developed, actually for a building not built... I had it in the back for a long time... at Fredonia, a physical education facility, a five by nine metal panel and outside was painted steel and inside was natural steel. It was an insulated panel. Weighed... it weighed a lot but there it is, just put it up, boom, you got the whole cladding of the building. So you have the structure and then you have the skin.

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