At mid-career, Meier guides the viewer on a retrospective of his
white buildings, from private houses of the 1960s to the Frankfurt
and Atlanta Museums of the 1980s--all variations on his trademark
spatial and planar treatment. His influences from Corbusier, Wright,
Mies, and Baroque Germany are shown. Clients and colleagues offer
opinions. At the end of the film Richard Meier stands on an empty
hill in Brentwood (L.A.) speculating on the issues and controversies
he will face in the design and realization of the Getty Center.
