The Architectural League awards its President’s Medal to Richard Meier in recognition of a remarkable body of work in which he has created, refined, and extended a rigorous architectural language that elevates the act of building and, thereby, the human activities that occur in the spaces he creates.  “Architecture is vital and enduring because it contains us,” he has written in describing his design philosophy; “it substantiates the space we exist in, move through, and use. My work is an effort to redefine and refine this ongoing human order, to interpret the relationship between what has been and what can be, to extract from our culture both the timeless and the topical.”