Richard Rogers
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Baron Rogers of Riverside, Richard George Rogers (born 23 July 1933), an Italian-British architect known for his modernist and functionalist designs in high-tech architecture. Rogers is perhaps best known for his work on the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Lloyd's building and Millennium Dome, both in London, the Senedd in Cardiff, and Strasbourg's European Court of Human Rights building.
He is a winner of the RIBA Gold Medal, Thomas Jefferson Medal, the RIBA Stirling Prize, the Minerva Medal, and the Pritzker Prize.
He is a Senior Partner at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, formerly known as the Richard Rogers Partnership.
Personal life
Rogers was married to Ruth Rogers, the chef and owner of The River Café in west London. Roo and Bo were their two sons together (deceased 2011). Ben, Zad, and Ab, Rogers' first marriage to Su Brumwell, were also his three sons, Ben, Zad and Ab. Peter William Rogers, a property developer and co-founder of Stanhope, had fourteen grandchildren and a younger brother. He was voted one of the "50 best-dressed British guys" by GQ magazine in 2015.
He died in London on December 18, 2021, at the age of 88.
Early life and career
Richard Rogers was born in Florence, Tuscany, in 1933 as the Anglo-Italian family. William Nino Rogers (1906–1993), his father, was Jewish, and he was the cousin of Italian Jewish architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers. In about 1800, his Jewish ancestors moved from Sunderland to Venice, then settling in Trieste, Milan, and Florence. William Nino Rogers returned to England in October 1938, having fled Fascist Italy and anti-Jewish measures under Mussolini.
Richard Rogers attended St John's School in Leatherhead, England, after moving to England. Rogers didn't excel academically, making him believe he was "stupid" because he couldn't read or memorise his school assignments, and as a result, he became "very sad." He couldn't read until he was 11, and it wasn't until after he had his first child that Rogers realized he was dyslexic. After leaving St Johns School, he took a foundation course at Epsom School of Art (now the University of the Creative Arts) before moving to National Service in 1951-1953.
He later attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, where he earned his Diploma (AA Dipl) from 1954 to 1959, then graduated with a Master's degree (M Arch) from the Yale School of Architecture in 1962 on a Fulbright Scholarship. Rogers met Norman Foster, a Yale architecture student, and Su Brumwell, a planning student.
After leaving Yale, he joined Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in New York. On returning to England in 1963, he, Norman Foster, and Brumwell established Team 4 as a group of architects with Wendy Cheesman (Brumwell later married Rogers, Cheesman married Foster). Rogers and Foster were known for what was later referred to as media high-tech architecture.
Team 4 had disbanded by 1967, but Rogers and John Young and Laurie Abbott continued to collaborate with Su Rogers, John Young and Laurie Abbott. He was hired by Humphrey Spender near Maldon, Essex, to produce a glass cube framed with I-beams in early 1968. He continued to develop his prefabrication and geometric simplicity in order to build a Wimbledon house for his parents. This was based on concepts from his conceptual Zip-Up House.
Rogers joined forces with Italian architect Renzo Piano, a fruitful collaboration. His career came a long way in 1971, when he, Piano, and Gianfranco Franchini won the Pompidou Centre's design competition, alongside an Ove Arup team that included Irish engineer Peter Rice.
Later career
Rogers formed the Richard Rogers Partnership in 1977 after working with Piano, Marco Goldschmied, Mike Davies, and John Young. In 2007, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners was born. The company has offices in London, Shanghai, and Sydney.
Rogers devoted a large portion of his later years to broader topics such as architecture, urbanism, sustainability, and the ways in which cities are used. One early example of his thinking was an exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1986 titled "London As It Could Be," which also included the work of James Stirling and Rogers' former companion Norman Foster. A series of plans for transforming a large area of central London was later dismissed by the city's officials as impractical.
He was the first architect to deliver the BBC's annual Reith Lectures in 1995. This series of five talks, titled "Sustainable City," were later turned into the book Cities for a Small Planet by Faber and Faber (London 1997, ISBN 0-571-17993). In July 2011, the BBC made these lectures available to the public for download.
He formed the Urban Task Force, a British government-funded initiative, in 1998 to help identify urban decline and establish a vision of health, vitality, and beauty for Britain's cities. This research resulted in a white paper titled Towards an Urban Renaissance, outlining future city designers' plans. Rogers served as chair of the Greater London Authority panel for Architecture and Urbanism for many years. He was chair of The Architecture Foundation's board of trustees.
He was chief architect and urbanism from 2001 to 2008, before becoming London Mayor Ken Livingstone. Boris Johnson, the then-new mayor of Ireland, had asked him to continue as an advisor in 2008. In October 2009, he resigned from the newspaper. Rogers has also served as an advisor to two mayors of Barcelona on urban planning.
Rogers continued to produce controversial and iconic works amid extracurricular programs. The Millennium Dome, one of the most popular of them all, was created by the Rogers' design team Buro Happold and completed in 1999. The exhibition's costs and contents were a hot topic in both political and public debate; the building itself cost £43 million.
Rogers' practice was chosen as the architect of Tower 3 of the new World Trade Center in New York City in May 2006, replacing the old World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the September 11 attacks.
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners' CEO resigned on June 30, 2020. As the founding constitution specifies, the Rogers name will be out of use by 2022.