The high-tech architect Richard Rogers is dead. This was reported by various media, citing the family and his spokesman. Accordingly, the Briton died on Saturday evening at the age of 88 in his home in London. Rogers leaves behind his wife and four sons. He was considered one of the most successful and influential architects worldwide.
Norman Foster, who was one of Rogers’ close friends, published a long homage in the specialist magazine “Building Design” on Sunday. “I will miss you very much,” wrote the 86-year-old British architect. “Richard’s legacy will live on,” it said.
Rogers saw himself as a modern functionalist. In England there was an extreme housing shortage in the 1960s and 1970s, which could only be alleviated with cheap, prefabricated houses. But Rogers developed his colorful, recognizable, but also adaptable style, in which he used both the building structure and the infrastructure as design elements.
Richard Rogers: Breakthrough with the Center Pompidou
After his worldwide breakthrough in the 1970s with the Center Pompidou, he designed the headquarters for the insurance market Lloyd’s of London; it was followed by the Millennium Dome, Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport and the Leadenhall Building in London’s financial district, nicknamed “Cheesegrater”.
The very bright and open Welsh Parliament called Senedd in Cardiff with its special, curved architecture is also a work of Rogers. Thank you “Lord Rogers” for his vision and your thoughts with your friends and family, it said on the Twitter account of Parliament.