Richard Meier at Baden-Baden

The Washington Post reviews Richard Meier's new private museum for a "collection of post-World War II paintings and sculpture assembled over three decades by Frieder Burda, a scion of a well-known publishing family."

Modest in size and appealing in scale, it is quintessential Meier, a condensation of his complex architectural vocabulary into an intensely beautiful pavilion in a park. Visiting it makes one appreciate (again) how stubbornly consistent Meier has been over the past four decades about the means and ends of architecture -- and how stupendously good he can be.

It's worth a read if you have any interest in contemporary archetecture, even with only one photo online. Meier was the architect for the Getty Museum (the big one, not the original Neo-Roman building, and the High Museum in Atlanta, which has a wonderful pedestrian ramp with internal windows overlooking the lobby- people in the lobby can look up at a white wall and see the people on the ramp popping into and out of view as they climb and descend.Click here: Windows of Opportunity at A German Museum (washingtonpost.com)

For a lot of pictures of the High Museum: Click here: High Museum of Art by Richard Meier