 Biography
of Lord Richard Rogers
Lord Richard Rogers is one of the foremost living architects,
the recipient of the prestigious RIBA Gold Medal in 1985 and winner
of the 1999 Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal and the
2000 Praemium Imperial Prize for Architecture. Lord Richard Rogers
was awarded the Legion d'Honneur in 1986, knighted in 1991 and
made a life peer in 1996. 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 Deputy Prime
Minister to chair the Government's Urban Task Force.
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Centre Pompidou, Paris
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Most recently he was appointed as Chief Adviser to the Mayor
of London on Architecture and Urbanism and also serves as Adviser
to the Mayor of Barcelona's Urban Strategies Council. He 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.
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Lloyd's of London
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He is best known for such pioneering buildings as the Centre
Pompidou, the HQ for Lloyd's of London, the European Court of
Human Rights in Strasbourg and the Millennium Dome in London.
His practice, founded in 1977, has offices in London, Barcelona
and Tokyo, and is now engaged on two major airport projects-Terminal
5 at London's Heathrow Airport and Barajas Airport, Madrid,
currently the largest construction site in Europe. Other schemes
include high-rise office projects in London, a new law court
complex in Antwerp, the National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff,
a hotel and conference centre in Barcelona and a new bridge
in Glasgow. Lord Richard Rogers has also championed major masterplans
in London, Shanghai, Berlin, Florence and Lisbon.
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Millennium Dome,
London
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Antwerp Law Courts
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| 2000 |
Praemium Imperial architecture laureate |
| 1999 |
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal In Architectuer |
| 1997 |
Friend of Barcelona |
| 1996 |
Life Baron of the United Kingdom |
| 1991 |
Knighthood |
| 1989 |
American Academy & Institute of arts & Letters:
Arnold W Brunner Memorial Prize |
| 1989 |
Honorary Member, Bund Deutscher Architekten |
| 1986 |
Chevalier, l'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur |
| 1985 |
The Royal Gold Medal for Architecture |
| 1984 |
Royal Academician, London |
| 1984-87 |
Academician, International Academy of Architecture |
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Member United Nation's Architects' Committee |
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Member RIBA Council and Policy Committees |
| 1983 |
Membre de l'Academie d'Architecture |
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Barajas Airport, Madrid
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