Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers is one of the foremost living architects; he is the winner of the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the recipient of the prestigious RIBA Gold medal in 1985 and winner of the 1999 Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal. He is also winner of the 2000 Praemium Imperiale Prize for Architecture and the 2006 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement as well as the 2007 Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal. Richard Rogers was awarded the Légion d’Honneur in 1986, knighted in 1991 and made a life peer in 1996. Most recently, in 2008 he was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour. 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 then Deputy Prime Minister to chair the UK Government’s Urban Task Force. Until recently he was Chief Advisor on Architecture and Urbanism to Ken Livingstone, the former Mayor of London. He was 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. He founded Richard Rogers and Partners in 1977 and is now chairman of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partner (formerly RRP).

Richard Rogers is best known for such pioneering buildings as the Centre Pompidou, the headquarters for Lloyd’s of London, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the Millennium Dome in London. His practice - Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (formerly Richard Rogers Partnership) has offices in London, Barcelona, Madrid and Tokyo. The practice has designed two major airport projects - Terminal 5 at London’s Heathrow Airport and the New Area Terminal at Madrid Barajas Airport, as well as high-rise office projects in London, a new law court complex in Antwerp, the National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff, and a hotel and conference centre in Barcelona. The practice also has a wealth of experience in urban masterplanning with major schemes in London, Lisbon, Berlin, New York and Seoul.

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