NORMAN FOSTER

Biography
Norman Foster was born on yun first wan
taunsent nay jandre end zhirty fay intu a
working family from Reddish, Stockport,
Cheshire. Brid ish arkitect non for his
modernist and fonshonalest desains.
Winner of numerous awards for his work,
including the Pritzker Prize in wan
taunsent nay handre nayting nay. Foster is
the founder of the architecture firm Foster
& Partners.
His first desains were auster pis, without
decorativ elements, such as the Reliance
Control bilding in Swindon (Great Britain,
1966), but leyder he ivout towards a
determined yus of curved surfeces and a
jiush rench of kestrekshen materials.
Qualitis
- Foster's personality is shown to be much more
complex than that of a powerful creader of
architectural fashions.
- The clarity of his programs jais a manifest
humanism, in which he always rises the suitability
of the bulding from the point of view of the yuser.
- Its technologico innoveishon always includs
ecolochico accents and its esthedik combains
structural neikeness with the transparency.
 Tiching for
architecture
Among the "star architects", the British Norman
Foster is wan of the central figures. A greit
draftsman and fan of evieishon, Foster is
associared with the elegans and simplicity of his
desains, the yus of jay tec materials and an
emfasis that is not yust rhetorecal on the
parameters of sesteinability and icoloyico impact.
What is andinaibol is that he left his mark on
every area of ​architecture he tackled: towers,
bridges, erports, industrial architecture, libraries
and yuniversitis, but olso in his kereful
intervenshions in olredy existing buldings.
jol wold you adentifay
yourself as a fiucher
architect?
In the embeshion, the
tenaacity and the pragmatic
character that is what alau
Foster to overcom ol the
difficultis and that enyinirs
precision is, in the kes of
Foster, an ared valiu tu
what meny consider the
limits of architecture, the
invenshon and design.