Richard Rogers
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| Richard Rogers | |
| Born | 1933; Florence, Italy |
| Education | Architectural Association School; Yale University |
| Firms | Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, London, England, United Kingdom, formerly Richard Rogers Partnership |
| Notes | One of the significant form givers of the 20th century through to today. Helped create and define the style we now know as high-tech modernism, while maintaining a sense of the human and environmental elements in archietcture. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/architects/Richard_Rogers.html |
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Works in chronological order
- Creek Vean, with Norman Foster at Foeck, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, 1964 to 1967.
- Rogers House, at Wimbledon, England, United Kingdom, 1967.
- Reliance Controls Ltd. Electrical Factory, with Norman Foster, at Swindon, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, 1967.
- Centre Pompidou, with Renzo Piano, at Paris, France, 1972 to 1976. GreatBuildings page
- PA Technology Center UK, at Hertfordshire, England, 1975 to 1983. GreatBuildings page
- Lloyds Building, at London, England, 1979 to 1984. GreatBuildings page
- INMOS Factory, at Newport, South Wales, 1980 to 1982. GreatBuildings page
- PA Technology Center, at Princeton, New Jersey, 1982. GreatBuildings page
- Palais des Droits de l'Homme, at Strasbourg, France, 1989 to 1995. (also known as the European Court of Human Rights)
- 88 Wood Street, at London, England, 1993 to 2001. GreatBuildings page
- Minami Yamashiro Primary School, at Kyoto, Japan, 1995 to 2003.
- Broadwick House, at London, England, United Kingdom, 1996 to 2002.
- Antwerp Law Courts, at Antwerp, Belgium, 1998 to 2005.
- Millennium Dome, at London, England, United Kingdom, 1999. GreatBuildings page
- Hesperia Hotel, at Barcelona, Spain, 1999 to 2006.
- Mossbourne Community Academy, at London, England, United Kingdom, 2002 to 2004.
- Convoys Wharf, at London, England, United Kingdom, 2002 to 2005.
- Bodegas Protos Winery, at Peñafiel, Spain, 2004 to 2006.
- Barajas New Area Terminal (NAT), with Estudio Lamela, at Madrid, Spain, 2005
- National Assembly for Wales, at Cardiff, Glamorgan, 2006.
- 175 Greenwich Street, New York, New York, 2006. (also known as World Trade Center Tower 3)
- Oxley Park, Milton Keynes, England, 2006. Low carbon emission pre-fabricated homes, part of the Design for Manufacture competition run by the UK Government.
Discussion
(b. Florence, Italy, 23 July 1933)
Richard Rogers was born in Florence, Italy in 1933. He attended the Architectural Association School in London before graduating from Yale University. He and his first wife, Sue, worked in a partnership with Renzo Piano. After the completion of the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Richard Rogers Partnership was formed.
His works reject the classical past, while enthusiastically embracing a technological future with its accompanying aesthetic. Although he places emphasis on technology, he believes that it cannot be an end in itself, but must attempt to solve existing social and ecological problems.
His interest in uninterrupted interior spaces has made Rogers an heir to the functionalist tradition. His concern with total flexibility and obvious technical imagery has been termed Late Modern. However, his more recent works have returned to the images of the early Modernists, notably Mendelsohn.
Details
- Recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, 2007.
- Recipient of the Japan Art Association's Praemium Imperiale, 2000
In his own words
"Ideology cannot be divided from architecture. Change will clearly come from radical changes in social and political structures. In the face of such immediate crises as starvation, rising population, homelessness, pollution, misuse of nonrenewable resources and industrial and agricultural production, we simply anesthetize our consciences. With problems so numerous and so profound, with no control except by starvation, disease, and war, we respond with detachment. Today, at best, we can hope to diminish the coming catastrophe by the recognition of the existing human conditions and by rational research and practice.
"The importance of technology is in the application of method to technique, whether one is talking of sophisticated or primitive technology. The aim of technology is to satisfy the needs of all levels of society. Technology cannot be an end in itself but aim at solving long-term social and ecological problems. This is impossible in a world where short-term profit for the "haves" is seen as a goal, at the expense of developing more efficient technology for the "have nots". All forms of technology—from low energy intensive to high energy intensive—must aim at conserving natural resources while minimizing ecological, visual, and social damage to the environment, so that by using as little material as possible, as functionally as possible, to answer new briefs, we reach a self-sustaining situation where input = output.
"A new distribution of ends and means is needed, not based purely on a limited financial evolution of human needs. In this context, it is as difficult to create a truly socially oriented brief as it is to adapt and translate it by the use of the correct technological means."
— Richard Rogers, circa 1980, in Contemporary Architects, Muriel Emanuel, editor, IBSN 0-312-16635-4, p682.
From the official CV
"Richard Rogers is one of the foremost living architects, the recipient of the prestigious RIBA Gold Medal in 1985 and winner of the 1999 Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal, the 2000 Praemium Imperiale Prize for Architecture and finally the 2006 Golden Lion for Lifetime achievement. Richard Rogers was awarded the Légion d’Honneur in 1986, knighted in 1991 and made a life peer in 1996. In 1995 he was the first architect ever invited to give the BBC Reith Lectures – a series entitled ‘Cities for a Small Planet’ – and in 1998 was appointed by the Deputy Prime Minister to chair the UK Government’s Urban Task Force. He is Chief Advisor on Architecture and Urbanism to the Mayor of London, and was recently appointed Chair of the Greater London Authority’s Design for London Advisory Group, and also serves as Adviser to the Mayor of Barcelona’s Urban Strategies Council. Richard Rogers has also served as Chairman of the Tate Gallery and Deputy Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain. He is currently a Trustee of the Museum of Modern Art in New York."
— http://www.richardrogers.co.uk/render.aspx?siteID=1&navIDs=1,5,18,107
References
"Richard Rogers Pritzker Prize", by ArchitectureWeek, ArchitectureWeek No. 328, 2007.0404, pN1.1.
"Richard Rogers Stirling Prize", by ArchitectureWeek, ArchitectureWeek No. 309, 2006.1025, pN1.1.
"Assembly by Rogers", by Terri Whitehead, ArchitectureWeek No. 297, 2006.0802, pD1.1.
"Madrid Takes Flight", by Rachel Grossman, ArchitectureWeek No. 275, 2006.0215, pD1.1.
"Art Sites France", by Sidra Stich, ArchitectureWeek No. 76, 2001.1128, pc1.1.
"88 Wood Street by Richard Rogers", by Don Barker, ArchitectureWeek No. 50, 2001.0516, pD1.1.
Barbie Campbell Cole and Ruth Elias Rogers, ed. Richard Rogers + Partners. London: Architectural Monographs, Academy Editions, 1985. ISBN 0-312-68207-7. LC 82-60002. NA997.R6R5 1985. p130-131. drawing of Leadenhall street elevation, p10.
Dennis Sharp. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Architects and Architecture. New York: Quatro Publishing, 1991. ISBN 0-8230-2539-X. NA40.I45. p130.</font>
External Links
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners — The architect's own web site.
