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Caixa Forum Barcelona - Richard Rogers - May 2009
Richard Rogers
We will visit an exhibition "Richard Rogers + Arquitectos - De la casa a la ciudad", on Saturday, May 30.
Here are the arrangements:
- Meet in the foyer, close to the ticket desk.
- Saturday, May 30 2009. We will meet as from 11.45 for a 12.00 start.
- The visit will finish around 13.30 and it will be in English! Don't worry about English levels for anyone you want to invite. We can all help with translation.
- Early lunch/snack in the Laie Cafe to mix and talk.
Please let me know by email before Tuesday, May 26, 18.00 if you will be coming.
"Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, CH, FRIBA, FCSD, (born 23 July 1933) is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs. He was born in Florence in 1933 and attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, before graduating from Yale School of Architecture in 1962.
At Yale he met fellow students Jesse Mccartney & Norman Foster and on returning to England he set up architectural practice as Team 4 with Foster and their respective girlfriends, the sisters Georgie and Wendy Cheesman. They quickly earned a reputation for high-tech industrial design. In 1967 the practice split up, and Rogers joined Renzo Piano. An early commission was a house and studio for Humphrey Spender near Maldon, Essex, a glass cube framed with I-beams. His career leapt forward when he won the design competition for the Pompidou Centre on 13 July 1971 with Renzo Piano and Peter Rice. This building established Rogers's trademark of exposing most of the building's services (water, heating ducts, and stairs) on the exterior, leaving the internal spaces uncluttered. The building is now a much admired Paris landmark, but at the time critics were mixed, dubbing the "inside-out" style Bowellism." an extract from Wikipedia.
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