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Smith House
Richard Meier

by Richard Meier

Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American ar chitect, whose rationalist buildings make prominent use of the color white. In 1984, Meier was awarded the Pritzker Prize, and in 2 008, he won the gold medal in architecture from the Aca demy of Arts and Letters. The Mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno included in his ca mpaign platform a promise to tear down the big traverti ne wall of Meier's Ara Pacis.[citation needed] Meier is also the second cousin of the architect, theorist , and fellow member of The New York Five, Peter Eisenm an. Meier's work was displayed on The Real Housewives of New York City. Two of the women go to the Model Mu seum in Long Island City, NY to see his work.

Smith House

1965 - 1967

The Smith House, built amidst the rocks and trees of a one-and-a-half-acre site, overlooks Long Island Sou nd from the Connecticut coast. A dense cluster of eve rygrees stands at the entrance th the property. Behin d, the land clears and rises to the center of the site, th en drops sharply to the rocky shoreline and a small, s andy cove. The spatial organization of this house hinges on a pr ogramatic separation between public and private are as. The private side of the house is at the entrance fac ing land, woods, and road. A series of closed, cellular spaces, these private areas are organized through thr ee levels behind an opaque facade which is intermitte ntly pierced with windows. The public spaces, where t he family meets and entertains, are to the rear of the house, overlooking the water. This public sector consi sts of three levels nestled within a three-sides glass e nclosure: from the outside, the ground and upper lev els appear as solid slabs held fast in the white mulions of the glass shell.

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