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

- Richard Meier

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

- Richard Meier

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

- 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

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

- Richard Meier

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

- Richard Meier

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

- Richard Meier

We look at each one [project] and consider the context - what it is and what it can be - beyond the strictly functional concerns.

- Richard Meier

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

- Richard Meier