I only saw bits of the Getty yesterday in flitting from building to building in between meetings, so wasn’t really able to take in the complex geometry of Richard Meier’s hilltop city, its separate buildings mirroring the different functions of the institution, and the vistas everywhere of the valley below. Banham was on the nine-person committee which selected Meier as architect in October 1984 (Stirling was in the last three):-



