Richard Rogers
Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, CH, Kt ( born July 23, 1933, Florence, Italy ) is a British architect and Pritzker Prize winner 2007.
Biography
Rogers is the son of a doctor, his mother was very interested in modern design. 1938 the family moved from Italy to England, where he was also enrolled. He was a poor student because he had a reading and writing, which at that time could not diagnose. Nevertheless, he completed secondary school, 1951, and was inclined to the wishes of the parents according to a study dentist. When he visited the Festival of Britain, he was fascinated by the temporary buildings erected there. During his two-year military service, he was transferred to Trieste. Here he became acquainted with the work of Ernesto Nathan Rogers ( BBPR ) know, one of the most famous Italian architect and his father's cousin. Rogers then decided to study at the Architectural Association School in London ( 1954-1959 ).
In 1961 he was able to continue studying for a Fulbright scholarship at Yale School of Art and Architecture, where he received his master 's degree in architecture. At Yale, he developed an interest in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, his first house God ( "my first god" ).
After graduating, he worked for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York City, then in 1963 he returned to England to continue working in his own office team 4. His colleagues were his first wife, Su Brumwell and Norman Foster with his wife Wendy Cheeseman.
From 1969 he worked with Renzo Piano on various projects that were not realized until they won the competition for the Centre Pompidou, which was built from 1971 to 1977. After this success, parted the two architects. The Planning Bureau Richard Rogers Partnership was founded in 1977 and today has offices in London, Barcelona, Madrid and Tokyo. In April 2007, he expanded the partnership at his law firm and changed the name to Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners.
From 1998 to 2005, Rogers Chairman of the Urban Task Force, a working group of the British government on issues of urban renewal.
Rogers is the father of five children and grandfather of nine grandchildren.
Works
He became internationally known buildings such as the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (planned in collaboration with Renzo Piano, 1971), the Lloyd's of London, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the Millennium Dome in London. Current projects include the construction of the building of the National Assembly for Wales, the conversion of a bullring in Barcelona, the building of Terminal 5 at London Heathrow, the construction of the new courthouse in Antwerp and Madrid-Barajas Airport, which in August 2006 largest construction site in Europe had been.
Another big project that will be built around 2015, is a new building at Ground Zero in New York City. Richard Rogers is the architect of the 357 -meter Three World Trade Center ( Tower 3 of the new World Trade Center complex). Another skyscraper is located in Seoul under construction, the 338 -meter high Parc Tower 1 A. The design of both buildings resembles slightly.
Its architectural language is often characterized by a demonstrative use of high- tech features, the Rogers often from outside the architecture such as the marine and automotive and computer technology takes over. This is accompanied also goes high ecological standards of its architecture. Rogers led, moreover, that the income gap is not more than six-fold between the directors and the lowest-paid architects achieved in his firm.
In an architecture argument with Prince Charles Richard Rogers has accused the heir to the throne he was abusing his constitutional role and is interfering in political processes. In the summer of 2009, the Arab owner of a former barracks in London had withdrawn a planning application by Rogers. Prior to Prince Charles was of the royal family of Qatar urged to rethink the modern design for the "Chelsea Barracks " in favor of a more classic. Then said the body responsible for the project construction company, it should be selected in conjunction with the Architecture Foundation of Prince a new design.
Awards
1991 Rogers was raised as a knight to the peerage in 1996, he was the " Baron Rogers of Riverside ( of Chelsea in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea) " the dignity of a life peer.
- RIBA Gold Medal in 1985
- Winner of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal 1999
- Winner of the Praemium Imperiale Prize for Architecture 2000
- Légion d' Honneur in 1986
- Honorary member of the Association of German Architects BDA 1990
- Knighthood 1991 ( Title as Sir Richard Rogers )
- Life Peerage 1996 ( Title as Lord Rogers of Riverside )
- RIBA Sterling Prize 2006 for the airport Madrid - Barajas
- Pritzker Prize 2007
- Order of the Companions of Honour in 2008
Retrospective
Lloyd's building (inside), London
Berlin, Potsdamer Platz, commercial and office buildings
Bodegas Protos, Valladolid
Barajas airport in Madrid
Palais de Justice, Bordeaux
O2 Arena, Greenwich ( London)
Senedd, Cardiff, Wales
Quotes
"I would like to be known for buildings Which are full of light, Which are light in weight, Which are flexible, Which have low energy, Which are what we call legible - you can read how the building is put together. "
Film
- Imagine ... Richard Rogers: Inside Out. Documentary, UK, 2007, 55:30 min, Director: James Nutt, Chair: Alan Yentob, Production: BBC series: Imagine, first broadcast February 26, 2008 on BBC One, Summary and video excerpt from the BBC.