Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, CH, Kt, FRIBA, FCSD, (born 23 July 1933) is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs. He was born in Florence in 1933 and attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, before graduating from Yale School of Architecture in 1962.
At Yale he met fellow students Norman Foster and Eldred Evans and on returning to England he set up architectural pr...
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Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, CH, Kt, FRIBA, FCSD, (born 23 July 1933) is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs. He was born in Florence in 1933 and attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, before graduating from Yale School of Architecture in 1962.
At Yale he met fellow students Norman Foster and Eldred Evans and on returning to England he set up architectural practice as Team 4 with Foster and their respective wifes, Su Brumwell and Wendy Cheeseman. They quickly earned a reputation for what was later termed by the media high-tech architecture.
By 1967 the Foster/Rogers partnership had split up, but Rogers continued to collaborate with Su, developing his ideas of prefabrication and structural simplicity to design a Wimbledon house for his parents. This was based on ideas from the 'Zip Up' house, such as the use of standardised components based on refrigerator panels to make energy efficient buildings....
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