Richard Meier (1986)

Richard Meier: Self

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• Richard Meier : As a student, one reads, among other things, Frank Lloyd Wright, The Nature of Materials, where he talks about buildings as being organic, meaning changing, growing, in a sense, living. The myth of that is that once you cut down a tree, it's no longer organic; it's no longer growingl; it's no longer living; buildings are not organic in that they don't grow, they don't change, they don't get green every spring. Once you make a building on the earth, it is not organic, it's man-made. That which is man-made is different from the which is natural, changing, growing. And I think that architecture should reflect that.

• Richard Meier : There's been a relationship between that which is manmade, that which is the architecture, and that which is natural. And it seemed to me that the whiteness allowed for clarity. Allowed for the understanding of these elements without a blurring of them by a super-imposition of some other element. And the whiteness has always intensified that experience.