The prolific minimalist architect Richard Meier, whose eponymous firm is celebrating its 50th birthday this year, tells Arch Digest what's behind that unwavering fascination with white: "Whiteness allows the architectural ideas to be understood most clearly—the difference between opacity and transparency, solid and void, structure and surface. These things are more perceptible in a white environment. They have a greater clarity." [Arch Digest; previously]
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