Richard Rogers (1933-)

Rogers was born in italy of Anglo-Italian parents, but he studied in London when he met an another important architect, Norman Foster.

His first construction took place in

collaboration with the "Team 4" including

Norman Foster.

Reliance Controls

Factory (1967)

IN 1967 HE DISSOLVED THE "TEAM 4" BUT ROGERS

POSES THE BASIC RULES OF HIS WAY OF BUILDING.

-Use of prefabricated

-structural simplicity

-energy efficients

buildings Oxley Park Houses

In 1971 Rogers started a collaboration with Italian architect Renzo

Piano. Rogers and Piano won the design competition for the Pompidou

Centre in Paris.

The innovation is the new location of the system (water,

heating and ventilation ducts) and stairs outside the building

HIGH TECH

STYLEPompidou Centre. 1977

A details of Centre Pompidou by

night.

� The same style was used

by Rogers in London, for

his Lloyd’s building. The

stairs and the lift towers

are situated in towers

and the shafts on the

exterior.

The Lloyd's building 1986

(sometimes known as the

Inside-Out Building)

Details of stairs.

Another big building by Richard Rogers is the incredible

Millennium Dome (today Arena O2) , is a building to

celebrate the arrival of the third millennium, completed

in 1999, is site in Greenwich island.

Millennium

Dome with

Canary Wharf

in background.

The Millennium Dome now houses

sports and music events.

Building for structural reasons has a

maximum duration of 25 years.

Sketches of

Millennium

Dome by

Rogers

In 2006, the architect won the design competition for a tower 3 in new World Trade Centre in New York.Roger’s designs as well as being exciting and lavish are also perfectly functional.