[1] Born in 1922, Meyer received his Bachelor of Architecture from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH-Zurich) in 1946.
[2] He immigrated to the United States in 1948 made his way to Los Angeles in 1949 and worked as a junior draftsman for the Bechtel Corporation.
In 1957 with the blessing of KWW he took the commission for Death Valley High School and started his own firm Cox, Hagman & Meyer.
In 1958 Kurt Meyer was awarded commission for the Lytton Savings & Loan’s new Hollywood Home Office Branch at the eastern end of the Sunset Strip.
[1] With his wife, Pamela Deuel, he explored the remote villages of the jungle lowlands of Nepal over a nine-year period starting in 1993.
From this period of exploration Meyer and Duel wrote A Rural Folk Art Version told by the Dangaura Tharu people of Jalaura Dang Valley, Nepal in 1998, Mahabharata: The Tharu Barka Naach in 1999, and In the Shadow of the Himalayas: Tibet - Bhutan - Nepal - Sikkim A Photographic Record by John Claude White 1883-1908 in 2006.
[14] The main project of this period was to be a book of Kurt Meyer's photography of the artistic Tharu tribe, it has yet to be completed.