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ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION
Centre Pompidou
Paris, France

Richard Rogers + Architects
21 November 2007 - 3 March 2008
GALERIE SUD, LEVEL 1, 1150m2

Richard Rogers said:
" I am delighted to have an exhibition showing the work that my colleagues and I have done over
the past 40 years. I am especially excited that it is taking place at the Pompidou Centre to mark its 30th
anniversary. Designing and building the Pompidou Centre has been one of the greatest experiences
of my career."

As part of its 30th anniversary celebrations, the Centre Pompidou is to pay tribute to Richard Rogers, who
with Renzo Piano was responsible for the design of the building and who was named the 2007
Laureate of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture.

The exhibition Richard Rogers + Architects presents a detailed survey of the work of Richard Rogers and
his partners over the last 40 years. Starting with his early projects with Norman and Wendy Foster
and Su Rogers at Team 4 in the 1960s, the exhibition also looks at the design of the Centre Pompidou
in the 1970s and his extensive work with Richard Rogers Partnership (now Rogers Stirk Harbour+ Partners).

From Lloyd’s of London to Terminal 4 at Madrid Barajas Airport; from the Zip-Up House of 1968 to the
proposals for Shanghai’s Lu Jia Zui’s urban development, the exhibition presents a wide range of projects
– from the past and present – through models, drawings, photographs, films and specially-written texts.
With this substantial survey of past and current projects, the exhibition illustrates Rogers' vision
of architecture’s formative social role.

Occupying 1,150 sq m of gallery space, this bilingual (French-English) retrospective presents a detailed
overview of Richard Rogers' extensive career.

The exhibition opens with a 30 metre wall-mounted timeline, showing Rogers’ output in chronological
sequence. Each project is represented by a photograph or drawing, offering an insight into 40 years
of architectural practice and theory. At the end of this timeline, a filmed interview in which Rogers
and his partners discuss their work and influences is shown.

Influenced by the ‘English School’ of the 1970s in his buildings, and by his Italian background in his approach
to cities, Rogers’ architectural and urban philosophy is based on the belief in a civil society, and the
relationship between the built environment and social inclusion. The exhibition illustrates this, and also
a concern for environmentally sustainable development that has influenced Rogers’ work since
the beginning of his career.

The projects presented are organised in colour-coded sections, with each ‘urban block’ evoking
an architectural theme which examines a range of projects through models, photographs, drawings
and films. In each thematic area – Transparent, Legible, Green, Public, Urban, Lightweight and Systems
– one or more key projects that are particularly representative of that theme are identified. In this way,
the visitor is introduced to the architect's most important achievements across the world, for example
Lloyd’s of London (London), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Bordeaux Law Courts, the National
Assembly for Wales (Cardiff), the Millennium Dome (London), the Shanghai Masterplan, Terminal 4
at Barajas Airport (Madrid), 88 Wood Street (London), and the Leadenhall Building (London). In this last
section, under the thematic title of Future, current projects by Rogers Stirk Harbour
+ Partners are shown.

The exhibition design incorporates a ‘piazza’ area where visitors may sit and read the catalogue and other
publications relating to Rogers’ work, explore the Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners website, or view films
about the projects presented.

The exhibition will also be presented at the Design Museum, London, in the Spring of 2008.

BIOGRAPHY

RICHARD ROGERS
AA Dipl, M Arch (Yale), RIBA, RA (Hon), FAIA (Hon), Dr RCA (Hon), BDA (Hon)

Richard Rogers is one of the foremost living architects; he is the winner of the 2007 Pritzker Architecture
Prize, the recipient of the prestigious RIBA Gold medal in 1985 and winner of the 1999 Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Foundation Medal. He is also winner of the 2000 Praemium Imperiale Prize for Architecture and
the 2006 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement as well as the 2007 Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal. 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 UK
Government’s Urban Task Force. He is Chief Advisor on Architecture and Urbanism to the Mayor of London,
and was recently appointed Chair of the Greater London Authority’s Design for London Advisory Group,
and also served 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 headquarters for
Lloyd’s of London, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the Millennium Dome in London.
His practice - Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (formerly Richard Rogers Partnership) has offices in London,
Barcelona, Madrid and Tokyo. The practice has designed two major airport projects - Terminal 5 at London’s
Heathrow Airport and the New Area Terminal at Madrid Barajas Airport, as well as high-rise office projects in
London, a new law court complex in Antwerp, the National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff, and a hotel
and conference centre in Barcelona. The practice also has a wealth of experience in urban masterplanning
with major schemes in London, Lisbon, Berlin, New York and Seoul.

Date Founded RRP: 1977
Chairman: RSHP (formerly RRP)
Education: Architectural Association, Yale University, M.Arch 1954-59
Date and Place of Birth: Florence, 1933

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CREDITS:
Text: Centre Pompidou
Photographs:

09. Lloyds Register of Shipping
Londres, Royaume-Uni, 1995-2000

26. T4 Barajas Airport, Madrid
Madrid, Espagne, 1997-2005
Richard Rogers Partnership avec la collaboration d’Estudio Lamela
© Richard Bryant / Arcaid

02. Centre Pompidou
Paris, France, 1971-1977
Renzo Piano et Richard Rogers
© Katsuhisa Kida

25. Millennium Dome
Londres, Royaume-Uni, 1996-1999
Richard Rogers Partnership
© Grant Smith / View

22. Palais de Justice de Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France, 1992-1998
Richard Rogers Partnership
© Katsuhisa Kida

29. Parlement du Pays de Galles
Cardiff, Royaume-Uni, 1999-2005
Richard Rogers Partnership
© Katsuhisa Kida

27. Palais des congrès de Rome, maquette
Rome, Italie, 1999
Richard Rogers Partnership
© Eamonn O’Mahony

28. Maison de Nino et Dada Rogers
Londres, Royaume-Uni, 1968-1969
Richard + Sue Rogers
© Richard Bryant / Arcaid