Paint It Black: “Whiteness Makes You More Aware of the Colors of Nature”

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Curated and produced by PLANE—SITE, this video series features interviews with prominent architects reflecting on the topics of TIME SPACE EXISTENCE.

This interview series has been made possible with the support of the European Cultural Centre.

Richard Meier’s oeuvre is known for bold, geometric buildings cast in luminous white, a color he believes enhances nature and refracts the world. In this new short video from the Time-Space-Existence series, Meier (b. 1934) discusses his first ever black building, 685 First Avenue in New York, as well as his love for designing museums. Produced by PLANE—SITE, the video has been commissioned by the GAA Foundation and funded by the ECC in the run-up to the Time-Space-Existence exhibition during La Biennale di Venezia Architettura (opening May 2018).