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Richard Rogers
Richard George Rogers,
Baron Rogers of Riverside CH Kt FRIBA FCSD (born 23 July
1933) is an Italian-born
British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist
designs.
Rogers is perhaps best known for his work on the
Pompidou Centre in Paris
Lloyd's building in London
Millennium Dome in London
European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg.
He is a winner of the
RIBA Gold Medal,
the Thomas Jefferson Medal,
the RIBA Stirling Prize,
the Minerva Medal and
Pritzker Prize

Early life and career

Rogers was born in Florence in 1933 and attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture in
London, before graduating with a master's degree from the Yale School of Architecture in 1962. While studying
at Yale, Rogers met fellow architecture student Norman Foster and planning student Su Brumwell. On
returning to England he, Foster and Brumwell set up architectural practice as Team 4 with Wendy Cheeseman
(Brumwell later married Rogers, Cheeseman married Foster). Rogers and Foster earned a reputation for
what was later termed by the media high-tech architecture.
By 1967, Team 4 had split up, but Rogers continued to collaborate with Su Rogers, along with John Young and
Laurie Abbott. In early 1968 he was commissioned to design a house and studio for Humphrey Spender
near Maldon, Essex, a glass cube framed with I-beams. He continued to develop his ideas of
prefabrication and structural simplicity to design a Wimbledon house for his parents. This was based on
ideas from his conceptual 'Zip Up' house, such as the use of standardised components based on
refrigerator panels to make energy-efficient buildings. Rogers subsequently joined forces with Italian
architect Renzo Piano, a partnership that was to prove fruitful. His career leapt forward when he, Piano
and Gianfranco Franchini won the design competition for the Pompidou Centre in July 1971, alongside a
team from Ove Arup that included Irish engineer Peter Rice.
This building established Rogers's trademark of exposing most of the building's services (water,
heating and ventilation ducts, and stairs) on the exterior, leaving the internal spaces uncluttered and
open for visitors to the centre's art exhibitions. This style, dubbed "Bowellism" by some critics, was not
universally popular at the time the centre opened in 1977, but today the Pompidou Centre is a widely
admired Parisian landmark. Rogers revisited this inside-out style with his design for London's Lloyd's
building, completed in 1986 - another controversial design which has since become a famous and
distinctive landmark in its own right.

Later career
After working with Piano, Rogers established the Richard Rogers Partnership along with Marco Goldschmied, Mike Davies and
John Young in 1977.[10] This became Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in 2007. The firm maintains offices in London, Barcelona,
Madrid, and Tokyo.
Rogers has devoted much of his later career to wider issues surrounding architecture, urbanism, sustainability and the
ways in which cities are used. One early illustration of his thinking was an exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1986, entitled
"London As It Could Be", which also featured the work of James Stirling and Rogers' former partner Norman Foster. This
exhibition made public a series of proposals for transforming a large area of central London, subsequently dismissed as
impractical by the city's authorities.
In 1995, he became the first architect to deliver the BBC's annual Reith Lectures. This series of five talks, titled
Sustainable City, were later adapted into the book Cities for a Small Planet (Faber and Faber: London 1997, ISBN 0-57117993-2). The BBC made these lectures available to the public for download in July, 2011.
In 1998, he set up the Urban Task Force at the invitation of the British government, to help identify causes of urban
decline and establish a vision of safety, vitality and beauty for Britain's cities. This work resulted in a white paper,
Towards an Urban Renaissance, outlining more than 100 recommendations for future city designers. Rogers also
served for several years as chair of the Greater London Authority panel for Architecture and Urbanism. He resigned
from this post in 2009. He has been Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Architecture Foundation. From 2001 to 2008
he was chief advisor on architecture and urbanism to Mayor of London Ken Livingstone; he was subsequently asked to
continue his role as an advisor by new mayor Boris Johnson in 2008. He stood down from the post in October 2009.
Rogers has also served as an advisor to the mayor of Barcelona on urban strategies.
Amidst this extra-curricular activity, Rogers has continued to create controversial and iconic works. Perhaps the most
famous of these, the Millennium Dome, was designed by the Rogers practice in conjunction with engineering firm Buro
Happold and completed in 1999. It was the subject of fierce political and public debate over the cost and contents of the exhibition
it contained, although the building itself cost only 43 million.
In May 2006, Rogers' practice was chosen as the architect of Tower 3 of the new World Trade Center in New York City,
replacing the old World Trade Center which was destroyed in the September 11 attacks.
Some of Rogers' recent plans have failed to get off the ground. The practice was appointed to design the replacement to the
Central Library in the Eastside of Birmingham; however, his plan was shelved for financial reasons. 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.

european court of human rights building in strasbourg

millennium dome in london

indoor arena, a music club, a cinema, an exhibition
space and bars and restaurants