Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (23 July 1933 – 18 December 2021) was a British architect noted for his
modernist
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and
functionalist designs in
high-tech architecture
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. He was a
senior partner at
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Rogers may refer to:
Places
Canada
*Rogers Pass (British Columbia)
* Rogers Island (Nunavut)
United States
* Rogers, Arkansas, a city
* Rogers, alternate name of Muroc, California, a former settlement
* Rogers, Indiana, an unincorporated communit ...
, previously known as the Richard Rogers Partnership, until June 2020.
Rogers was perhaps best known for his work on the
Pompidou Centre in Paris, the
Lloyd's building
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and
Millennium Dome
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, both in London, the
Senedd building, in
Cardiff
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, and the
European Court of Human Rights building
The building of the European Court of Human Rights is located in the European Quarter of Strasbourg, France. It was designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership and Claude Buche and was completed in 1994.
The building is located on the eastern ...
, in Strasbourg. He was awarded the
RIBA Gold Medal, the
Thomas Jefferson Medal, the RIBA
Stirling Prize
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, the
Minerva Medal, and the
Pritzker Prize
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.
Early life and career
Richard Rogers was born in
Florence
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, Tuscany, in 1933 into an
Anglo-Italian
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family. His father, William Nino Rogers (1906–1993), was Jewish, and was the cousin of Italian Jewish architect
Ernesto Nathan Rogers
Ernesto Nathan Rogers (March 16, 1909 – November 7, 1969) was an Italian architect, writer and educator.
Biography
Born in Trieste, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he graduated from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy in 1932. He is the co ...
. His Jewish ancestors moved from
Sunderland
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to
Venice
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in about 1800, later settling in
Trieste
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, Milan and
Florence
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. In October 1938, William Nino Rogers came back to England,
having fled
Fascist Italy and
anti-Jewish laws under
Mussolini
Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (; 29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until Fall of the Fascist re ...
.
Upon moving to England, Richard Rogers went to
St John's School, Leatherhead
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. Rogers did not excel academically, which made him believe that he was "stupid because he could not read or memorise his school work"
and as a consequence, he said, he became "very depressed".
He couldn't read until he was 11,
and it was not until after he had his first child that Rogers realised he was dyslexic.
After leaving St Johns School, he undertook a foundation course at Epsom School of Art (now the
University for the Creative Arts
The University for the Creative Arts is a specialist art and design university in the south of England.
It was formed in 2005 as University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester when the Kent Ins ...
) before going into
National Service
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The ...
between 1951 and 1953.
He then attended the
Architectural Association School of Architecture
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in London, where he gained the Architectural Association's Diploma (AA Dipl) from 1954 until 1959, subsequently graduating with a master's degree (M Arch) from the
Yale School of Architecture
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in 1962 on a
Fulbright Scholarship
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.
While studying at Yale, Rogers met fellow architecture student
Norman Foster
Norman or Normans may refer to:
Ethnic and cultural identity
* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
** People or things connected with the Nor ...
and planning student
Su Brumwell.
After leaving Yale he joined
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
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in New York City.
On returning to England in 1963, he, Norman Foster and Brumwell set up architectural practice as
Team 4 with
Wendy Cheesman (Brumwell later married Rogers, Cheesman married Foster). Rogers and Foster earned a reputation for what was later termed by the media
high-tech architecture
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.
By 1967, Team 4 had split up, but Rogers continued to collaborate with
Su Rogers, along with John Young and Laurie Abbott. In early 1968 he was commissioned to design a house and studio for
Humphrey Spender near
Maldon, Essex
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, a glass cube framed with I-beams. He continued to develop his ideas of prefabrication and structural simplicity to design a Wimbledon house for his parents. This was based on ideas from his conceptual
Zip-Up House.
Rogers subsequently joined forces with Italian architect
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano (; born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect. His notable buildings include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (with Richard Rogers, 1977), The Shard in London (2012), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (2 ...
, a partnership that was to prove fruitful. His career leapt forward when he, Piano and
Gianfranco Franchini
Gianfranco Franchini (December 17, 1938 – April 21, 2009) was an Italian architect.
Biography
Born in Genoa and educated at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Franchini is best known for his collaboration with Renzo Piano and Richard R ...
won the
design competition for the
Pompidou Centre in July 1971, alongside a team from
Ove Arup that included Irish engineer
Peter Rice
Peter Rice (16 June 1935 – 25 October 1992) was an Irish structural engineer.
Born in Dublin, he grew up in 52 Castle Road, Dundalk in County Louth, and spent his childhood between the town of Dundalk, and the villages of Gyles' Quay and In ...
.
Later career
After working with Piano, Rogers established the
Richard Rogers Partnership along with
Marco Goldschmied
Marco Lorenzo Sinnott Goldschmied (28 March 1944 – 7 July 2022) was a British architect best known as co-founder and managing director of Richard Rogers Partnership. He was latterly involved with running the Marco Goldschmied Foundation and ...
,
Mike Davies, and John Young in 1977. This became
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners Rogers may refer to:
Places
Canada
*Rogers Pass (British Columbia)
* Rogers Island (Nunavut)
United States
* Rogers, Arkansas, a city
* Rogers, alternate name of Muroc, California, a former settlement
* Rogers, Indiana, an unincorporated communit ...
in 2007. The firm maintains offices in London, Shanghai, and Sydney.
Rogers devoted much of his later career to wider issues surrounding architecture, urbanism, sustainability, and the ways in which cities are used. One early illustration of his thinking was an exhibition at the
Royal Academy
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in 1986, entitled "''London As It Could Be''", which also featured the work of
James Stirling and Rogers' former partner Norman Foster. This exhibition made public a series of proposals for transforming a large area of
central London
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, subsequently dismissed as impractical by the city's authorities.
In 1995, he became the first architect to deliver the
BBC's annual
Reith Lectures
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. This series of five talks, titled Sustainable City, were later adapted into the book ''Cities for a Small Planet'' (Faber and Faber: London 1997, ). The BBC made these lectures available to the public for download in July 2011.
In 1998, he set up the Urban Task Force at the invitation of the British government, to help identify causes of urban decline and establish a vision of safety, vitality, and beauty for Britain's cities. This work resulted in a
white paper
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, ''
Towards an Urban Renaissance'', outlining recommendations for future city designers. Rogers also served for several years as chair of the
Greater London Authority
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panel for Architecture and
Urbanism
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. He was chair of the board of Trustees of
The Architecture Foundation Founded in 1991, The Architecture Foundation is Britain's oldest independent architecture centre. It examines contemporary issues in architectural theory and practice, through a public programme that has involved exhibitions, competitions publicatio ...
.
From 2001 to 2008, he was chief advisor on architecture and urbanism to the then
Mayor of London
The mayor of London is the chief executive of the Greater London Authority. The role was created in 2000 after the Greater London devolution referendum in 1998, and was the first directly elected mayor in the United Kingdom.
The current m ...
Ken Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born 17 June 1945) is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office ...
. In 2008, he was asked to continue on in his role as an advisor by the then new mayor
Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (; born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer and journalist who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. He previously served as ...
. He stood down from the post in October 2009. Rogers also served as an advisor to two mayors of
Barcelona
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on urban strategies.
Amidst this extra-curricular activity, Rogers continued to create controversial and iconic works. Perhaps the most famous of these, the
Millennium Dome
The Millennium Dome was the original name of the large dome-shaped building on the Greenwich Peninsula in South East London, England, which housed a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of the third millennium. As of 2022, it is the ni ...
, was designed by the Rogers practice in conjunction with engineering firm
Buro Happold
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and completed in 1999. It was the subject of fierce political and public debate over the cost and contents of the exhibition it contained; the building itself cost £43 million.
In May 2006, Rogers' practice was chosen as the architect of
Tower 3 of the
new World Trade Center in New York City, replacing the
old World Trade Center which was destroyed in the
September 11 attacks
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.
Rogers resigned his directorship of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners on 30 June 2020. The Rogers name will be removed from the practice by 2022 as the founding constitution requires.
Selected projects
Team 4
* Creek Vean,
Cornwall
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, UK (1963–1966)
* Reliance Controls factory,
Swindon
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, UK (1967)
* Jaffe House (also known as Skybreak House),
Humphrey Spender's house, Maldon, UK (1965–1966)
*
Wates Housing,
Coulsdon, Surrey, UK (1965)
*Murray Mews,
Camden, London, UK (1966)
Richard and Su Rogers Architects (with John Young and Laurie Abbott)
*
22 Parkside (Dr. Nino and Dada Rogers' house),
Wimbledon, London, UK (1967)
*
Zip-Up House (1967–69)
Piano + Rogers
*
Universal Oil Products,
Tadworth
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, UK (1969–1974)
*
B&B Italia
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headquarters,
Como
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Its proximity to Lake Como and to the Alps ...
, Italy (1972–1973)
*
Pompidou Centre, Paris, France (1971–77)
*
IRCAM
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, Paris, France (1971–1977)
* PA Consulting Group's Research Laboratory,
Melbourn
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, UK (1976–1983)
The Richard Rogers Partnership
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
File:Heathrow Terminal 5 from the air.jpg, London Heathrow Terminal 5
File:Maggie's Centre, Charing Cross, London.jpg, Maggie's Centre, London
File:CentralParkStation(KMRT-R9).jpg, Central Park Station (R9), Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.
File:Las Arenas 2011.jpg, Las Arenas, Barcelona
File:One Hyde Park - Knightsbridge (20826078708).jpg, One Hyde Park, London
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Criticisms
Like
Le Corbusier
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, the designs of some of Rogers's buildings have not proved as functionally efficient as claimed, suffering from leaks and maintenance problems. The Lloyds Buildings's much-vaunted design innovation of having the service pipes, etc outside the walls, in fact led to such costs caused by weathering and maintenance that Lloyds considered vacating the building in 2014. Lloyd's former chief executive Richard Ward stated: "There is a fundamental problem with this building. Everything is exposed to the elements, and that makes it very costly."
In 2014 Rogers faced a £5m legal claim over problems at the Oxley Woods estate designed by the firm. Residents complained of water seepage through cladding panels and windows on the prefabricated terraced housing.
Palestine controversy
In February 2006, Rogers hosted the inaugural meeting of the campaigning organisation Architects and Planners for Justice in
Palestine (APJP) in his London offices. At that time his practice had secured a number of projects in New York, including the redevelopment of the
Silvercup Studios
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site, a masterplan for the East River Waterfront and a commission for a $1.7 billion expansion of the
Jacob K. Javits
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Convention Centre in Manhattan. Rogers, however, publicly dissociated himself from the group within weeks, following an outcry from generally pro-Israeli New York voters and politicians, which threatened him with the loss of prestigious commissions including projects in New York and abroad. He announced his withdrawal with the statement, "I unequivocally renounce Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine and have withdrawn my relationship with them."
Personal life
Rogers was married to
Ruth Rogers, chef and owner of
The River Café restaurant in west London. They had two sons together,
Roo and Bo (deceased 2011). Rogers also had three sons, Ben, Zad and Ab, from his first marriage to Su Brumwell. He had fourteen grandchildren and a younger brother, Peter William Rogers, a property developer and co-founder of Stanhope. In 2015, he was named one of the "50 best-dressed British men" by ''
GQ'' magazine.
He died in London on 18 December 2021, at the age of 88.
Honours and awards
Rogers was
knighted
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in 1991 by
Queen Elizabeth II
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. He was created Baron Rogers of Riverside, of
Chelsea in the
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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on 17 October 1996. He sat as a
Labour peer in the
House of Lords
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; having not attended a proceeding in the 2019–21 session, his membership expired on 11 May 2021. Rogers was appointed a Member of the
Order of the Companions of Honour
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(CH) in the
2008 Birthday Honours list. However, he was a republican.
Rogers was awarded the
RIBA
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Royal Gold Medal
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in 1985. He was twice honoured by France, first as a Chevalier, L'Ordre National de la
Légion d'honneur
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in 1986, and later as an Officier de l'
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
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in 1995. He received a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 10th
Mostra di Architettura di Venezia. In 2006, the Richard Rogers Partnership was awarded the
Stirling Prize
The Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize is a British prize for excellence in architecture. It is named after the architect James Stirling, organised and awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The S ...
for Terminal 4 of
Barajas Airport, and again in 2009 for Maggie's Centre in London. Rogers won the
Gold Medal for Architecture at the
National Eisteddfod of Wales
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of 2006 for his work on the
Senedd building of the
Senedd (Welsh Parliament)
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. He was also appointed an Honorary
Fellow
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In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements.
Within the context of higher education ...
of the
Royal Academy of Engineering
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The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior ...
in 2005. In 2007 Rogers was made Laureate of the
Pritzker Architecture Prize
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– architecture's highest honour.
He was awarded the Minerva Medal by the
Chartered Society of Designers in the same year. In 2012, Rogers was among the
British cultural icons selected by artist Sir
Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' ''
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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'' album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of the last six decades.
Rogers was awarded honorary degrees from several universities, including Alfonso X El Sabio University in Madrid,
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford Brookes University (formerly known as Oxford Polytechnic) is a public university in Oxford, England. It is a new university, having received university status through the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. The university was named ...
, the
University of Kent
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, mottoeng = Literal translation: 'Whom to serve is to reign'(Book of Common Prayer translation: 'whose service is perfect freedom')Graham Martin, ''From Vision to Reality: the Making of the University of Kent at Canterbury'' ...
, the
Czech Technical University in Prague
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and the
Open University
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. In 1994, he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) by the
University of Bath
(Virgil, Georgics II)
, mottoeng = Learn the culture proper to each after its kind
, established = 1886 (Merchant Venturers Technical College) 1960 (Bristol College of Science and Technology) 1966 (Bath University of Technology) 1971 (univ ...
.
In popular culture
Rogers is mentioned (along with fellow architect
Philip Johnson
Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect best known for his works of modern and postmodern architecture. Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the po ...
) in the song "Thru These Architect's Eyes" on the album ''
Outside'' (1995) by
David Bowie
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.
Rogers is mentioned in the song "Anti-Everything" by British band
Mansun
Mansun were an English alternative rock band, formed in Chester in 1995. The band comprised vocalist/rhythm guitarist Paul Draper, bassist Stove King, lead guitarist/backing vocalist Dominic Chad, and drummer Andie Rathbone.
It was announ ...
, from the album ''
Six'' (1998).
Publications
Rogers wrote several books during his career, including:
* ''Architecture: A Modern View'',
Thames & Hudson
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(1991)
* ''A New London'' (co-author Mark Fisher and the Labour Party),
Penguin
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(1992)
* ''Cities for a Small Planet'',
Faber and Faber
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(1997)
* ''
Towards an Urban Renaissance'', Urban Task Force (1999)
* ''Cities for a Small Country'', Faber and Faber (2000)
* ''Richard Rogers and Architects: From the House to the City'', Fiell Publishing (2010)
* ''Architecture: A Modern View'', Thames & Hudson (2013)
References
External links
*
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners websiteLarge list of major Richard Rogers skyscrapers with data and imagesRogers, Stirk, Harbour and Partners projects portfolio
Richard Rogers presents the 2007 Annual Discourse at the Royal Institute of British Architects(video)
The 1995 BBC Reith Lectures: Sustainable City by Richard Rogers
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1933 births
2021 deaths
20th-century English architects
Architects from Florence
English people of Italian descent
Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Italian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Italian people of English descent
Italian people of Jewish descent
English people of Jewish descent
Knights Bachelor
Rogers of Riverside
Members of the Académie d'architecture
Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour
Modernist architects from England
People educated at Kingswood House School
People educated at St John's School, Leatherhead
Pritzker Architecture Prize winners
Recipients of the AIA Gold Medal
Recipients of the Praemium Imperiale
Recipients of the Royal Gold Medal
Rogers family
Royal Academicians
Stirling Prize laureates
Welsh Eisteddfod Gold Medal winners
Yale School of Architecture alumni
Honorary Fellows of the American Institute of Architects
Alfonso X El Sabio University alumni
British republicans
Fulbright alumni