Richard Meier Gets Some Respect

Denying the NY Times‘s Nicolai Ouroussoff the highly critical last word (“a flop”) on Richard Meier‘s Ara Pacis Museum in Rome, architecture critic Joseph Giovannini, in this month’s Art in America, calls it: “at every level a major success….A century from now visitors won’t be able to imagine Rome without it….This is a structure that confirms the past of Roman building tradition while opening up to an architectural future.”
I can’t give comment, since I haven’t seen it, other than to remark, as I did in my previous Meier post, that the tenor of the Times review seemed as much influenced by perceptions of Meier as a self-aggrandizing and self-important individual as it was by the quality of the work itself.
No link to the AiA article. For more, pick up the magazine.