Tribute to Richard Rogers (1933-2021)

Born in Florence in 1933, Sir Richard Rogers is one of the most famous archistars thanks to his renowned works realized in more than 50 years, in particular with Team 4, with Renzo Piano and, later, with the Studio Rogers and Partnership.

Rogers graduated in London in 1959 before moving to the United States, where he met Norman Foster and in 1963, with their respective wives, founded Team 4.

Individually and with the group, Rogers designed a series of private homes and residential complexes during these years, including a plastic house with his wife and his Wimbledon home in steel and synthetic materials, but it was the industrial buildings at Swindon (1966) that marked a turning point in the careers of Rogers and Foster.

In 1971, in partnership with Renzo Piano, he won the competition for the construction of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, one of the best known and most debated projects of the 1970s. In 1977, he founded the agency that bears his name and designed the Lloyd's headquarters in London (1978-1986), which is today an emblem of modern and high-tech architecture, and the Fleetguard Factory in Quimper (1983).
En 1977, il fonde l’agence qui porte son nom et réalise le siège de Lloyd’s à Londres (1978-1986), qui est aujourd’hui un emblème de l’architecture moderne et de la high-tech, et la Fleetguard Factory à Quimper (1983).

In recent decades, he has designed the London headquarters of Channel 4 television (1994); the palace of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg (1995); the Paddington Basin in London (2000); the Barajas airport terminal in Madrid (2004); East River Waterfront in New York (2004-2006); Maggie's Centre in West London (RIBA Stirling Prize winner 2009); One Hyde Park in London (2007-2010); renovation-reconversion of Las Arenas Stadium in Barcelona (2011).

Rogers has received numerous awards, the most prestigious of which are: the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1985, the title of Baronet in 1991, the Praemium Imperiale for Architecture of the Japan Art Association in 2000, the Pritzker Prize (2007) and the 2019 Gold Medal of the AIA - American Institute of Architects, in "recognition of the English architect's long professional activity and his influence on the theory and practice of the discipline."

Image Courtesy of 2013 Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners