Architect Rogers Biography


His cousin Ernestus Nathan Rogers Ernesto Nathan Rogers; - - Italian architect, editor of the architectural magazines Domus and Casabella. After he headed for the development of allied relations with Hitler Germany in Mussolini, the R. Rogers family moved from Florence to England. Rogers studied at the School of the Architectural Association in London with J.

Sterling and P. Smithson-as well as at Yale University in New Hayven-where he met N. with him, his future wife W. Foster and his wife Sue Rogers marriage, Rogers founded the architectural bureau Team 4-and designed the factory Reliance Controls in Swindon, County Wiltshire; Not preserved, completely erected from prefabricated elements with a steel frame made out.

After the bureau broke up, R. Richard Rogers. The house of the parents of Richard Rogers in the Uimbledon area, London. Their joint work, a residential project from the prefabricated panels “Lightning House” -; English. Zipup House and the House of Parents of R. Rogers in the London district of Wimbledon on a frame with facade panels, inherently - experimental samples of the prefabricated residential building affordable.

This type of structures occupied an important place in the architect’s work, for example, the Oxley Woods residential array in Milton Caines, Bakingmashir,; The Homeshell residential module, implemented in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts in London as part of the exhibition "Richard Rogers. From the inside out ",; The model of the Y-Cube, which is easily produced, he also investigated the theme of the modular frame with a transformable shell for industrial and research structures in the Inmos plant in Newport in Wales, and other Pompidu, Paris Center.

The building of the company "Lloyd", London. In the city of Piago, R. Rogers won the competition for the Pompido Center project in Paris - with the participation of architect J. Frankini; Engineers P. Rice, E. Khappald, one of the first buildings in the high-tech style. After the completion of this project in the city, working as part of the high-tech direction, the architect emphasized the individual components of his buildings, achieving this special expressiveness of the image of the Lloyd building in London with corner "official" towers,; Complex of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg; Nippon Television skyscrapers in Tokyo, and Leadenhall in London, skyscraper Leadenhall, London.

From the x Rogers used a tree in buildings, partially moved away from the "machine" aesthetics, using softer, streamlined forms: the court buildings in Bordeaux and Antwerp, the "dome of the millennium", now the O2 entertainment complex with a bridge located above it with the observation deck on the P-OV Grinvich in London, the National Assembly of Wales in Cardiff, the 4th 4th 4th Barahas Airport terminal in Madrid; Sterling Award, Maggie's Oncological Center in the Charving Cross hospital in London; The Sterling Prize, the Bodegas Protos winery in Valdolida, the dome of the millennium now - the entertainment complex "O2", London.

Rogers took part in the reconstruction of the complex of the World Trade Center in New York, where in the city among urban planning work-plans for the reconstruction of the industrial zone on the P-O-oh Greenwich in London-and in the city of Almad near Lisbon-, the area of ​​the Barangru-South in Sydney-with a complex of three office towers with protruding sunsers at the facades of Rogers Actively He participated in public life, advocating improving the quality of the urban environment, the chief adviser to the architecture and urbanism of the mayor of London, and t.

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery in London - Deputy Chairman of the Council for the Art of Great Britain. Honorary trustee of the Museum of Contemporary Art in New York with the building of the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg. The Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects Cavalier of the Order of the Honorary Legion of Praemium Imperiale of the Japanese Art Association Pritzker Prize, USA.

Order of Cavaliers of Honor, Great Britain.

Architect Rogers Biography

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