Richard Rogers

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Richard Rogers
Pompidou centre, Paris
Name	Richard Rogers
Nationality	British
Birth date	23 July, 1933
Birth place	Florence
Working Life
Practice Name	Richard Rogers Partnership
Significant Buildings	Centre Georges Pompidou Lloyd's Building Millennium Dome National Assembly for Wales
Significant Projects	Towards an Urban Renaissance
Awards and Prizes	Stirling Prize

Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (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.<ref name="CV">Richard Rogers (English). Press Release CV. Richard Rogers Partnerships. Retrieved on 2006-07-31.</ref>

At Yale he met fellow student Norman Foster and on returning to England he set up architectural practice as Team 4 with Foster and their respective wives Sue Rogers and Wendy Cheesman. They quickly earned a reputation for high-tech industrial design.

In 1967 the practice split up, and Rogers joined Renzo Piano winning the design for the Pompidou Centre in 1971. This building established Rogers' trademark of exposing most of the building's services (water, heating ducts, and stairs) on the exterior, leaving the internal spaces uncluttered. The building is now a much admired Paris landmark, but at the time critics were mixed, dubbing the "inside-out" style "Bowellism".

After working with Piano, Rogers established the Richard Rogers Partnership in 1976.

His most famous works include:

Rogers' House Wimbledon (1967)<ref>Dr Rogers House. Richard Rogers Partnership. Retrieved on 2006-10-27.</ref>
Centre Pompidou Paris (1972–78)
Lloyd's building London (1979–84)
European Court of Human Rights Strasbourg (1984)
Millennium Dome London (1999)
The Senedd, the new building for the National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff (2006)
Barajas Airport Terminal 4, Madrid (2005)
88 Wood Street London (1993-2001)

He was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1985. He received a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 10th Mostra di Architettura di Venezia^{[citation needed]}. In 2006, he won the Stirling Prize for Terminal 4 of Barajas Airport.<ref>RIBA Stirling Prize 2006. RIBA. Retrieved on 2006-10-27.</ref>

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Lord Rogers was one of the most vocal advocates of the Millennium Dome project and his reputation has suffered as a result. Though still regarded as one of the major international practices it is notable that since the Dome he has secured fewer landmark projects.

After several years of development, the ambitious Rogers Masterplan for the regeneration of Newcastle-upon-Tyne was rejected. Lord Rogers has been active politically as a Labour life peer with the title Baron Rogers of Riverside, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. In 2000 he wrote the UK government's white paper, Towards an Urban Renaissance. Lord Rogers is currently chair of the Greater London Authority panel for Architecture and Urbanism.

Richard Rogers was appointed to design the replacement to the Central Library in the Eastside of Birmingham; however his plan was rejected on grounds of cost. The area adjacent to the land that the library would have stood on known as City Park Gate is still to be designed by Rogers.

Lord Rogers has been awarded an honorary degree from the University of Kent.

Rogers has been chosen as the architect of Tower 3 of the new World Trade Center in New York City, replacing the old World Trade Center, which had been destroyed in the September 11 attacks. His old classmate and contemporary Norman Foster is also designing a new WTC tower.

Richard Rogers' second wife is Ruth Rogers, co-owner of The River Café (also designed by Richard Rogers) and author of a series of popular cookery books on Italian food. He was knighted in 1981 by Queen Elizabeth II.