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Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white.[1] A winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984, Meier has designed several iconic buildings including the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and San Jose City Hall.Meier was born to a Jewish family,[2][3][4] the oldest of three sons of Carolyn (Kaltenbacher) and Jerome Meier, a wholesale wine and liquor salesman,[5] in Newark, New Jersey.[6] He grew up in nearby Maplewood,[7] where he attended Columbia High School. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1957.After graduating, Meier traveled to Israel, Greece, Germany, France, Denmark, Finland, and Italy, among other places, to network with architects.[5]Meier is also the second cousin of Peter Eisenman, an architect, theorist, and fellow member of The New York Five.