Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers (1933-2021) was a British architect, born in Florence, Italy. He studied at the Architectural Association in London and at Yale, where he met Norman Foster; in 1963 the two founded Team 4 with Su Brumwell and Wendy Cheesman. He was made a life peer, Baron Rogers of Riverside, in 1996 and received the Pritzker Prize in 2007.

His buildings, usually grouped under the name High-Tech, expose their structure and services. With Renzo Piano and Gianfranco Franchini he designed the Centre Pompidou in Paris (1971-1977), which carries its steel frame, escalator tube and color-coded ducts on the outside. The Lloyd's building in the City of London (completed 1986) places its lifts, stairs and stainless-steel service pipes in six towers around a central atrium, which leaves the office floors open.

Later works include the Millennium Dome in Greenwich (1999), a fabric roof hung from twelve yellow masts; Terminal 4 at Madrid-Barajas Airport (2006), which won the Stirling Prize; the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Cardiff (2006); and the Leadenhall Building in London (2014). From 1998 he chaired the British government's Urban Task Force, which recommended building at higher density on previously developed urban land. His firm became Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in 2007.