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Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934 in Newark, New Jersey) is a late twentieth century American architect known for his use of the color white. He achieved a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1957, worked for SOM (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill) briefly in 1959, then for Marcel Breuer for three years before starting his own practice in 1963. Identified as one of The New York Five in 1972, his commission of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California catapulted his popularity. In 1984, Meier was awarded the Pritzker Prize. He also consulted on the design of several buildings that appear in the 2003 city building computer game SimCity 4, making him perhaps the first professional architect ever commissioned to participate in building design for a computer game.