Richard Rogers

Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (Florence, 23 July 1933 – 18 December 2021), was an Italian-born English architect.

Rogers was born in Florence, his ancestors having moved from England to Italy 200 years earlier. At the age of six, with the outbreak of the Second World War, he returned with his family to England. His father was a cousin of the Italian architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers.

He had difficulties at school because of his dyslexia, he decided to study architecture only after having done his military service influenced by the figure of his father's cousin. He studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
In 1964, together with his wife Sue and the couple Wendy and Norman Foster, he founded Team 4, which was responsible for the construction of the Reliance Controls Factory (1967) and other lesser-known works. Also in 1967, Rogers represented English architects at the Paris Biennale, holding university courses in Cambridge and London. At the end of the decade, together with his wife, he created a light and flexible house, made of plastic elements.
In 1968-69 he built his home at Wimbledon, using steel and synthetic materials.

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