One of the greatest exponents of contemporary architecture, the Italian-British architect Richard Rogers he passed away on Saturday night, he was 88 years old. With its extraordinary tubular-shaped museum projects, Center Pompidou in Paris created with Renzo Piano, the enormous Millennium Dome in London, which seems to hover like an alien spaceship and the exuberant Lloyd’s of London building, with its soaring atrium and futuristic line, Sir Richard Rogers transformed architecture. When he was assigned the Pritzker in 2007, the highest honor in architecture, a sort of Nobel Prize for the sector, the jury cited his “unique interpretation of the Modern Movement’s fascination with the building as a machine” and claimed to have “revolutionized museums, transforming those which were once elite monuments in popular places of social and cultural exchange, woven into the heart of the city ».
The architect Richard Rogers. (Getty Images)
It was ScarffRogers was born in Florence to parents of British origin who then returned to England in the Second World War when he was only six years old.
Architect Lord Richard Rogers in an elevator at Lloyd’s Building in London (Getty Images)
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Millenium Dome, designed by Richard Rogers, on the River Thames, Greenwich (Getty Images)
Steve EasonHe was undoubtedly one of the most revolutionary minds of international architecture and the awards he received confirmed the universality of his creativity: in addition to Prize Pritzker in 2007, he was assigned the Imperial award in 2000 and on Golden Lion career in 2006.
Georges Pompidou Center, Paris a project by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. (Getty Images)
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