Richard Rogers

1933–2021 · British-Italian · 12 buildings on the wall

Richard Rogers (1933–2021) was a British and Italian architect, born in Florence, and a leading figure of high-tech architecture. He met Norman Foster while studying at Yale, and in 1963 they set up Team 4 with Su Brumwell and Wendy Cheesman. He was made a life peer, Baron Rogers of Riverside, in 1996, led the British government's Urban Task Force on the decline of cities from 1998, and won the Pritzker Prize in 2007.

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With Renzo Piano and Gianfranco Franchini he won the 1971 competition for the Centre Pompidou in Paris (1977), the project that made his career. The Lloyd's Building in London (1986), often called the Inside-Out Building, puts its stairs, lifts, ducts and pipes on the outside to leave the floors clear, though the exposed services have made upkeep expensive. The Senedd in Cardiff (2006), home of the Welsh Parliament, uses Welsh slate and oak, a cedar ceiling, and a roof cowl that funnels daylight and air into the chamber below. Madrid-Barajas Airport Terminal 4 (2006) won the Stirling Prize. Richard Rogers's projects are studied for open, flexible floors and for structure and services put on show.

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