Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier has retired and his name has been removed from the studio he founded, three years after accusations of sexual harassment were made against him.
Richard Meier & Partners Architects, which he founded in 1963, has been renamed Meier Partners. Meier's daughter Ana Meier will continue to serve as an advisor to the firm.
As part of the restructuring, the firm's Los Angeles office has become an independent practice called STUDIOpractice led by Michael Palladin and Jim Crawford.
Meier, 86, will still be available to consult with clients upon request, his studio confirmed in an announcement on 23 June.
Retirement coincides with practice restructure
The architect, whose designs include the Getty Centre in Los Angeles and City Hall in The Hague, has now officially retired to coincide with a restructuring of the studio.
Dukho Yeon has been named partner and lead designer after 30 years at the practice. George H. Miller, previously managing partner at Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, has been named Meier Partners' partner and chief operating officer.
"The future we envision at Meier Partners will build on our proven record of exceptional architecture to create work that is both relevant for our time and meaningful to society," said Yeon.
"Our talented and fast-growing, reinvigorated team is working on a new generation of projects that I am confident will evolve our legacy and redefine the firm and the industry as we move ...