Richard Rogers is one of the foremost living architects, the recipient of the prestigious RIBA Gold Medal in 1985 and winner of the 1999 Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal and the 2000 Praemium Imperiale Prize for Architecture.  Richard Rogers was awarded the Légion d’Honneur in 1986, knighted in 1991 and made a life peer in 1996.  In 1995 he was the first architect ever invited to give the BBC Reith Lectures – a series entitled ‘Cities for a Small Planet’ and in 1998 was appointed by the Deputy Prime Minister to chair the government’s Urban Task Force. 

Most recently he was appointed as Chief Adviser to the Mayor of London on Architecture and Urbanism and also serves as Adviser to the Mayor of Barcelona’s Urban Strategies Council.  Richard Rogers has also served as Chairman of the Tate Gallery and Deputy Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain.  He is currently a Trustee of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. 

Richard Rogers is best known for such pioneering buildings as the Centre Pompidou, the HQ for Lloyd’s of London, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the Millennium Dome in London.  His practice, founded in 1977, has offices in London, Barcelona, Madrid and Tokyo, and is now engaged on two major airport projects – Terminal 5 at London’s Heathrow Airport and Barajas Airport, Madrid, currently the largest construction site in Europe.

Other schemes include high-rise office projects in London, a new law court complex in Antwerp, the National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff, a hotel and conference centre in Barcelona and a new bridge in Glasgow.  The practice also has a wealth of experience in urban masterplanning with major schemes in London, Shanghai, Berlin, Florence and Lisbon.