With his partner Renzo Piano, he won in 1971 the contest of daring Musée National d’Art Moderne erected in the district of Beaubourg in Paris. Father of a school of architecture called “high-tech”, he built, among others, the headquarters of Lloyd’s in London. He died Saturday, December 18, at the age of 88.
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The architect and urban planner Richard Rogers, one of the main representatives of the current “high tech” English in 1970 and winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2007, died Saturday, December 18 at the age of 88.
Richard Rogers “died peacefully,” said Matthew Freud, founder and president of the communication agency Freuds, the British news agency PA. The New York Times, his son Roo Rogers confirmed his death, the cause of which was not specified.
The Columbia promoted Baron Rogers of Riverside in 1996, has experienced international fame in 1977, after the completion of the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris, co-directed with Italian Renzo Piano and which has contributed engineering Irish Peter Rice (1935-1992).
Richard Rogers was born July 23, 1933, in Florence, Italy. Her father, Nino, of British origin, is a doctor who grew up in Venice; After the aristocracy of Trieste, his mother, Ermenegilda, nicknamed “Dada” is pottery. Love of the arts, she was the writer James Joyce as an English teacher. In the foyer, culture plays a major role. In 1938, the Jewish origins of Father dangerously exposing the fascist racial laws, the family moved to London, swapping the vast Florentine overlooking Brunelleschi’s dome against a small apartment without comfort Bayswater.
Richard Rogers, who suffers unknowingly dyslexia, tastes little school. It leaves at 18, ahead of the call. His fluency in Italian led him to perform military service in Trieste in 1951. It binds with an uncle, Ernesto Nathan Rogers, famous architect and future co-perpetrator within the BBPR agency, the Velasca Tower ( 1958), néomédiévale surprising resurgence of brutalist invoice, located in the heart of Milan. After the army, he worked in the agency. Although he failed the entrance exams at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, Richard Rogers joined the school claiming work experience with his uncle.
The meeting with Norman Foster
Richard Rogers did not leave a lasting impression on his teachers. In 1958 one of them, in one of his periodic reports, said: “. His creations will continue to suffer, as its design will be so bad, his working method so chaotic and critical judgment as inarticulate” L ‘the person concerned has always accepted, the drawing is not his forte. This harsh judgment will be compensated by meeting with Su Brumwell, his first wife and mother of three of his five children. Their studies, both departed for Yale (Connecticut), where Rogers won a scholarship to prepare a control (master’s degree). There he met his compatriot Norman Foster and the wife of this one, Wendy Cheesman, with whom he befriends. Back in England, the quartet created Team 4.
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