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'Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside' (born 23 July 1933) is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs. He was born in Florence in 1933 and attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, before graduating from Yale School of Architecture in 1962.^[1]

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Early career

Projects

Honours

Later career

References

External links

Early career

At Yale he met fellow student Norman Foster and on returning to England he set up architectural practice as Team 4 with Foster and their respective wives Sue Rogers and Wendy Cheesman. They quickly earned a reputation for high-tech industrial design.
In 1967 the practice split up, and Rogers joined Renzo Piano. An early commission was a house and studio for Humphrey Spender near Maldon, Essex, a glass cube framed with I-beams. His career leapt forward when he won the design competition for the Pompidou Centre on 13 July 1971 with Renzo Piano and Peter Rice. This building established Rogers's trademark of exposing most of the building's services (water, heating ducts, and stairs) on the exterior, leaving the internal spaces uncluttered. The building is now a much admired Paris landmark, but at the time critics were mixed, dubbing the "inside-out" style "Bowellism".

Projects

★ Rogers' House Wimbledon (1967)^[2]

★ Centre Pompidou Paris (1972–78)

★ Lloyd's building London (1979–84)

★ European Court of Human Rights Strasbourg (1984)

★ Millennium Dome London (1999)

★ The Senedd, the new building for the National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff (2006)

★ Barajas Airport Terminal 4, Madrid (2005)

★ 88 Wood Street London (1993-2001)

★ Ashford Designer Outlet Ashford, Kent (2000)

★ Courts of Law Antwerp Belgium (2005)

★ 122 Leadenhall (completion expected in 2010)

Honours

Rogers was knighted in 1981 by Queen Elizabeth II. He was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1985. He received a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 10th Mostra di Architettura di Venezia.^[3] In 2006, he was awarded the Stirling Prize for Terminal 4 of Barajas Airport.^[4]
Rogers has been awarded an honorary degree from the University of Kent, and is to be awarded the 2007 Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour.^[5]

Later career

Rogers was one of the most vocal advocates of the Millennium Dome project and his reputation has suffered as a result. Though still regarded as one of the major international practices it is notable that since the Dome he has secured fewer landmark projects.
After several years of development, the ambitious Rogers Masterplan for the regeneration of Newcastle-upon-Tyne was rejected. Rogers has been active politically as a Labour life peer with the title Baron Rogers of Riverside, of Chelsea in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. In 2000 he wrote the UK government's white paper, ''Towards an Urban Renaissance''. Rogers is currently chair of the Greater London Authority panel for Architecture and Urbanism.
Rogers was appointed to design the replacement to the Central Library in the Eastside of Birmingham; however, his plan was rejected on grounds of cost. City Park Gate, the area adjacent to the land the library would have stood on, is now being designed by Ken Shuttleworth's MAKE Architects.
Rogers has been chosen as the architect of Tower 3 of the new World Trade Center in New York City, replacing the old World Trade Center, which had been destroyed in the September 11 attacks. His old classmate, contemporary and former practice partner Norman Foster is also designing a new WTC tower.
After working with Piano, Rogers established the Richard Rogers Partnership in 1976. This became Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in 2007. The firm maintains offices in London, Barcelona, Madrid, and Tokyo.

References

1. Richard Rogers
2. Dr Rogers House
3. Biennale Architecture: 10th International Architecture Exhibition (2006), Official Awards
4. RIBA Stirling Prize 2006
5. British Architect Wins 2007 Pritzker Prize Robin Pogrebin

External links

★ Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners website

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★ Large list of major Richard Rogers skyscrapers with data and images