Richard Rogers
The expression of an era
The architect Richard Rogers (Florence, 1933 – London, 2021), Italian by birth but raised in the United Kingdom, won the Pritzker Prize in 2007 and sat in the House of Lords from 1997 on, as the creator of architectural landmarks like the Pompidou Centre in Paris or terminal 4 of Madrid’s Adolfo Suárez airport.
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Richard Rogers understood the conception of public buildings as “places for all people”, where he interiorized the importance of these spaces as “something essential for improving people’s lives”, because “architecture is a response to the way we live, work and move around the city”.
His first job was the home his parents needed for their retirement, while he was still a student. The aspiring young architect used advanced technological building methods, making him a pioneer of the high tech movement.
Rogers embarked on his career in the world of architecture alongside his wife, Ruth Rogers, and the prestigious Norman and Wendy Foster. A few years later the group split up and together with the Italian Renzo Piano, he conceived the Paris Pompidou Centre, Europe’s largest contemporary art museum. This construction personified the start of the high-tech era in France. For him, the great success of this building was that it “managed to express the era”.
Rogers was critical with [...]
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