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30-463: The Weill Institute occupies three floors in the south wing of Weill Hall, a $ 162 million, 263,000-square-foot (24,400 m) research facility on Cornell University's Ithaca campus. Weill Hall was designed by world-renowned architect and Cornell alumnus Richard Meier . Cornell and the Weill Institute celebrated the building's dedication on October 16, 2008. In May 2006, Scott D. Emr was named

60-640: A featured location in Transworld Skateboarding magazine for Go Skateboarding Day in 2016. MACBA is managed by a consortium founded in 1988 whose members include the Generalitat de Catalunya, the City Council of Barcelona, and the Spanish Ministry of Culture . In March 2015, Bartomeu Marí i Ribas resigned as director of the museum in light of a censorship row over a controversial installation by

90-556: A group of contemporary artists showing work in a series of twenty-three exhibitions with the hopes of beginning a collection for a new contemporary art museum in Barcelona. It was not until 1986 that the City Council of Barcelona recommended the American architect Richard Meier & Partners (1987–1995) to design the museum. Art critics Francesc Miralles and Rosa Queralt were hired to write

120-835: A visitors center in New Harmony, Indiana (completed 1979), and for the High Museum of Art in Atlanta , Georgia (completed 1983). Although Meier was an acclaimed architect for years, his design for the Getty Center , a large museum complex in Los Angeles (completed 1997), brought him an elevated level of recognition. Other notable commissions from this period include museums such as the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art in Spain (completed 1995) and

150-708: Is a contemporary art museum situated in the Plaça dels Àngels, in El Raval neighborhood, Ciutat Vella district, in Barcelona , Catalonia , Spain. The museum opened to the public on 28 November 1995. Its current director is Elvira Dyangani Ose , while previous directors include Daniel Giralt-Miracle (1988–1994), Miquel Molins Nubiola (1995–1998), Manuel Borja-Villel  [ es ] (1998–2007), Bartomeu Marí  [ es ] (2008-2015), and Ferran Barenblit (2015-2021). In 1959, art critic Alexandre Cirici Pellicer formed

180-675: Is also a second cousin of Peter Eisenman , an architect, theorist, and fellow member of The New York Five . In New York City, Meier worked briefly in 1959 for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill , and then for three years for Marcel Breuer before starting his own firm in 1963. In 1972, he was identified as one of The New York Five , a group of modernist architects: Meier, Peter Eisenman , Michael Graves , Charles Gwathmey , and John Hejduk . Early in his career, Meier worked with artists such as painter Frank Stella and favored structures that were white and geometric. Meier first gained recognition for his designs for various houses, for The Atheneum ,

210-606: Is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. 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, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and San Jose City Hall . In 2018, some of Meier's employees accused him of sexual assault, which led to him resigning from his firm in 2021. Meier

240-505: The Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Director of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology. Emr is perhaps best known for his identification of the ESCRT ( e ndosomal s orting c omplex r equired for t ransport) protein machinery. This set of protein complexes is critical for down-regulating activated cell surface receptors. It has also been found to play a vital role in cell division and

270-968: The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, California (completed 1996); The Hague, The Netherlands City Hall (completed 1995) and San Jose City Hall (completed 2005); commercial buildings such as the reconstruction of City Tower in Prague, Czech Republic (completed 2008); and residential buildings such as 173 and 176 Perry Street in the West Village of Manhattan (completed 2002) and Meier on Rothschild in Tel Aviv, Israel (completed 2015). Today, Richard Meier & Partners Architects has offices in New York and Los Angeles, with projects ranging from China and Tel Aviv to Paris and Hamburg. Much of Meier's work builds on

300-611: The viral budding of HIV. His work on the ESCRT complexes has led to his election into both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004 and the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2007. Anthony Bretscher was appointed in 2007 as Associate Director of the Weill Institute. His research focuses on microfilaments and cell polarity . Richard Meier Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934)

330-411: The allegations and Meier's apology, his alma mater Cornell University declined his intended endowment of a named chair and instituted a review of his previous donations. On April 6, 2018, an additional four women who formerly worked at Meier's architecture firm came forward with allegations against him. The most recent allegations dated to 2009. On October 9, 2018, the firm announced that his resignation

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360-455: The city lent the entire historic cluster to the institution for an unspecified term. Meier embraced the difficult task of creating a building that would ultimately display a variety of contemporary artworks that were unknown to him at the time of design. The choice to build the museum in the Plaça dels Ángels is consistent with Meier’s vision to situate the building amongst some of Barcelona’s oldest streets and buildings, in addition to revamping

390-560: The colour). White has been used in many architectural landmark buildings throughout history, including cathedrals and the white-washed villages of the Mediterranean region, in Spain, southern Italy and Greece. The Mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno , included in his campaign platform a promise to tear down the large travertine wall of Meier's Museum of the Ara Pacis . Alemmano had agreed with Meier to modifications including drastically reducing

420-476: The educational opportunities available to the public. The museum address is Plaça dels Angels 1, Barcelona. The closest metro stations are Catalunya and Universitat . Opposite the main museum, in the medieval Convent dels Àngels for which the square is named, a chapel has been converted into a separate exposition area known as the Capella del MACBA , with regular video art performances. Entrance to this part of

450-497: The first one covers the forties to the sixties; the second spans the sixties and seventies; the third period is contemporary. The collections focus on post-1945 Catalan and Spanish art, although some International artists are also represented. In 2007, the Center for Studies and Documentation MACBA was created, which developed a facet of complementary collecting with the traditional collection. In 2011, Philippe Méaille loans 800 works of

480-502: The height of the wall between an open-air space outside the museum and a busy road along the Tiber river. The city plans are to build a wide pedestrian area along the river and run the road underneath it. "It's an improvement," says Meier, adding that "the reason that wall was there has to do with traffic and noise. Once that is eliminated, the idea of opening the piazza to the river is a good one." The mayor's office said Alemanno hoped to complete

510-402: The museum is free. Another contemporary art museum, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), is adjacent to MACBA, and accessible from both the street and the inner patio . The area in front of the museum is known among skateboarders to be one of the most iconic "spots" for the sport in the world. A 3D model of the location is featured in the smartphone game "Skater", and was

540-581: The museum opened its Study Center, and the Library Reading Room and Special Collections Room grant the public free access to the museum’s books, publications collection, and archives. The museum publishes mainly exhibition catalogues from the museum, although has published some monographic books and critical essays. It also has three digital publications: Quaderns portàtils , Quaderns d'Àudio , and Sèrie Capella MACBA . The museum offers lectures, seminars, guided tours, video screenings and more to broaden

570-587: The museum’s mission statement. In 1987, the MACBA Foundation was created. In the following year the MACBA Foundation, in conjunction with the Generalitat de Catalunya and the City Council, founded the MACBA Consortium in order further the process of the museum. The Consortium commissioned Meier later that year to build the museum. This was a controversial issue considering that the museum had no collection at

600-653: The occasion of his firm's 50th anniversary, the Fondazione Bisazza presented the exhibition “Richard Meier: Architecture and Design” in Vicenza , Italy. In 2014, Meier opened a 15,000-square-foot exhibition space museum at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City . The space gathers much of his life's work under one roof, and replaces a much smaller version that opened in 2007 in Long Island City, Queens , and that until 2013

630-551: The project before the end of his term in 2013. The new project of the underpass along the river Tevere has not progressed since then and in 2024 the area is unchanged. In 1984, Meier was awarded the Pritzker Prize . The jury citation declared that Meier has "created structures which are personal, vigorous, original." In 2008, he won the gold medal in architecture from the Academy of Arts and Letters and his work Jesolo Lido Village

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660-476: The public space of the Raval. After the completion of the $ 35 million construction, local media referred to the museum as “the pearl” amongst the old architecture and narrow streets just a few blocks from Gothic center of Barcelona. The building’s architectural style has strong references to Modernism . The large 120 by 35 metres (394 by 115 ft) white building has much of its southern elevation glazed, providing

690-611: The radical conceptualists artists group Art & Language at MACBA. Fearing political instability after the Catalonia referendum in October 2017, he will withdraw his loan and repatriate his collection to Château de Montsoreau-Museum of contemporary art . In 2020, under the tenure of Ferran Barenblit , it was announced the most generous donation ever received by the museum, the Rafael Tous collection of conceptual art. In December 2007,

720-451: The time of construction. The museum opened to the public in 1995, well after the 1992 Summer Olympics for which it was planned. In 2014, the museum acquired an additional venue for its programming, comprising a converted 15th-century chapel and two large halls, a total of about 21,500 square feet, as well as the central Plaça dels Angels square. While MACBA has long used the chapel for performances and site-specific installations, this time

750-459: The visitor with views across the plaza, and allowing for an abundance of natural light to illuminate the interior galleries. The museum has three main galleries, which can be subdivided, as well as five smaller galleries, one of which is in a tower. The permanent collection of around 5,000 works (up from 1,100 works at the time of the museum's opening in 1995) dates from the mid-20th century onward. There are three periods of modern art represented:

780-670: The work of architects of the early to mid-20th century, especially that of Le Corbusier , particularly his early work. Meier is considered to have built more using Corbusier's ideas than anyone, including Le Corbusier himself. Meier expanded many ideas evident in Le Corbusier's work, particularly the Villa Savoye and the Swiss Pavilion. His work also reflects the influences of other designers such as Mies Van der Rohe and, in some instances, Frank Lloyd Wright and Luis Barragán (without

810-757: Was awarded the Dedalo Minosse International Prize for commissioning a building . Meier is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council . He was awarded the AIA Gold Medal in 1997. In 2013, he was awarded the A+ Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1996, he received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement . In 2010, Cornell established a new professorship named for Meier. Paying tribute Meier on

840-539: Was born to a Jewish family, the oldest of three sons of Carolyn (Kaltenbacher) and Jerome Meier, a wholesale wine and liquor salesman, in Newark, New Jersey . He grew up in nearby Maplewood , 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. Meier

870-442: Was open only by appointment to students and tour groups. The new venue provides room to show his own sculptures, architectural drawings and collages for the first time, and is planned to include a research library. On March 13, 2018, The New York Times detailed allegations from women that Meier had sexually harassed or assaulted them. Meier responded by saying that he would take a leave of six months from his firm. In response to

900-521: Was permanent. Major works by Meier include the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art , the Getty Center , Meier on Rothschild , and On Prospect Park . [REDACTED] Media related to Richard Meier at Wikimedia Commons Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art ( Catalan : Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona , IPA: [muˈzɛw ˈðaɾt kuntəmpuˈɾani ðə βəɾsəˈlonə] , MACBA , Catalan: [ˈmagbə] )

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