Active 1967–c. 1970 · British · 1 buildings on the wall
Richard and Su Rogers was the architecture practice of Richard Rogers (1933–2021) and Su Rogers (born 1939), active from about 1967 to 1970, between their years in Team 4 with Norman Foster and Wendy Cheesman and their partnership with Renzo Piano. The couple met at the London School of Economics and married in 1960. With John Young and Laurie Abbott, the practice designed the Zip-Up House, a concept house that was never built. In 1971 they joined Renzo Piano as Piano + Rogers, which designed the Pompidou Centre.
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22 Parkside (Rogers House) in Wimbledon (1969), built for Richard's parents, took ideas from the Zip-Up House: a single-storey house of bright yellow steel ribs with full-height glazing at each end, divided into a flat and pottery studio for his mother in front and the main house among the trees behind. Listed Grade II* since 2013 as an early high-tech, steel-framed house in Britain, it was given to the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2015. Richard Rogers said its prefabricated steel and glass modules inspired much of his later work, including the Pompidou Centre and the Lloyd's building.
