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Richard Rogers
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the quality of the environment, is to get everybody
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Life Story

.Richard George Rogers was born in Florence, Italy, on

July 23, 1933, to British parents. He served in the British
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Association School (1953-1959) in London. He received
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the Diploma of Architecture in 1959 and in 1960 married
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at the Yale University School of Architecture in New
Haven, Connecticut on a Fulbright scholarship, and
received the Master of Architecture degree in 1962.
Returning from America, Rogers formed a partnership
with Norman and Wendy Foster and Su Rogers (1963-
1968) in London called Team 4. They completed an
industrial building (1967) at Swindon, Wiltshire, England,
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(1968-1970).

Famous Works
The LeadenHall Building

The centre pompidou

Lloyd's building
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WIMBLEDON HOUSE
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One of Rogers's first solo projects after the dissolution of his

early partnership with Su Rogers and Norman and Wendy
D Foster, the Wimbledon House was a commission for his
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his family.
'I was very close to my parents. They wanted a house that
had two bedrooms, and my father was a doctor, so there
was a small consulting room. They wanted a certain amount
of fluidity, somewhere to put the cars, and my mother was a
potter, so she wanted a studio.
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'It's an open-ended frame made up of elements that could
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be bought over the counter - standard steel joints and
prefabricated panels made for the installation industry.
'It was very much a prototype. You can make a direct link
from the Wimbledon House to the Pompidou Centre - it's all
there, the exposed steel frame, the bright colours: it's about
flexibility, adaptability. The idea was that the house could
march down the garden and could easily grow as well as
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change.'
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