Norman Foster (architect)

See also: Foster

Norman Foster , Baron Foster off Thames Bank, OM (June 1st 1935, Manchester) is a British Architecte . Emulate Buckminster Fuller, Foster is one of the principal representatives of the Architecture high-tech with inter alia Richard Rogers.

Biography

Norman Foster leaves the school at the 16 years age to enter the working life, then to carry out its military service in the Royal Air Force. It follows courses of architecture and Urbanisme to the Université of Manchester, while working to finance its studies until obtaining its diploma in 1961. A purse post-diploma is decreed to him, which enables him to go to the the United States where it obtains the following year a master' S dismantles structures about it with the Université Yale. Foster binds friendship with Richard Rogers and benefits from its stay on the other side of the Atlantic to visit works of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. In 1963 it founds the cabinet, in company of Rogers and their respective wives, Wendy Cheesman Foster and Su Rogers. The project of the Reliance factories, located at Swindon, enables them to pose the bases of architecture known as {{foreign quotation|High tech}}, which will be thereafter the trademark of Foster and Rogers. 1967 mark the separation of, Rogers works then with Renzo Piano, while Foster assembles with his wife the cabinet, today renamed. It works out itself the plans of this cabinet located at London in 1972, then of a second in 1981. Starting from 1968 Foster assists the architect visionary Richard Buckminster Fuller in his theoretical work, of which the project of Autonomous House . Today the cabinet counts more than 500 collaborators and employees, of the agencies with London, Berlin and HongKong, and treats several tens of important projects per annum. The cabinet also carries out signed furniture and projects of installation and interior decoration. Norman Foster supervises the projects and guides its teams, but taking into account its age and of the size of the company it cannot be invested any more personally in the details of each building.

Rewards and distinctions

Norman Foster enjoys a world famous and gained more than 300 rewards and outstanding commendation award throughout the world, and more than 60 victories in national competitions and international. As example, it receives the gold medal of the RIBA in 1983, the gold medal of the French Academy of architecture in 1991 and the gold medal of the institute of the American architects in 1994. Finally in 1999 the Prix Pritzker, which rewards the greatest creators, is decreed to him. Very implied in the London architectural world, Norman Foster is member of the Royal College off Art, of Royal Institute off British Architects (RIBA), of Architecture Foundation off London and vice-president of Architectural Association in London.

In 1990 it is named knight, then decorated with the Order of Merit in 1997, and finally created even of the United Kingdom, receiving the title of baron Foster off Thames Bank, off Reddish in the County off Greater Manchester in 1999.

Principal projects

Projects carried out

  • 1974 - Head office of Willis Faber and Dumas, Ipswich, the United Kingdom (building classified)
  • 1978 - Sainsbury Centers for Visual Arts, Norwich, the United Kingdom
  • 1982 - central Deposit of Renault, Swindon, the United Kingdom
  • 1985 - BBC Radio Center, London, the United Kingdom
  • 1986 - HongKong and Shanghai Bank, HongKong
  • 1990 - ITN Headquarters, London, the United Kingdom (Photo)
  • 1991 - Century tower, Tokyo, Japan (Photographs)
  • 1991 - Aéroport of London Stansted, Essex, the United Kingdom (Photographs)
  • 1992 - Turn of the Collserola communications, Barcelona, Spain
  • 1993 - Square of Art, Nimes, France (Photo)
  • 1993 - College Albert Camus of Frejus (83 - VAr) - France
  • 1995 - NTT Broadcasting Centers, Nagano, Japan
  • 1995 - Faculty of Law, Cambridge, the United Kingdom (Photographs)
  • 1997 - American Air Museum, Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire , the United Kingdom (Photographs)
  • 1997 - Center of Design of the Rhineland-of-North-Westphalia, Essen, Germany
  • 1997 - Head office of Commerzbank, Francfort-sur-le-Main, Germany
  • 1998 - Samsung Motors Office and Showroom, South Korea
  • 1998 - International airport of HongKong, Chek Lap Kok, HongKong
  • 1999 - new German Parliament, Reichstag, Berlin, Germany (Photographs)
  • 2000 - The Great Short At the British Museum (roof on the interior court of the museum), London, the United Kingdom (Photographs)
  • 2000 - And viaduct subway station (Pottery) of the VALLEY in Rennes (http://archiguide.free.fr/PH/FRA/Ren/RennValPoterieFo.jpg)
  • 2001 - London Millennium Bridge, London, the United Kingdom (Photo)
  • 2002 - Town hall of London (London City Hall, seat of the authority of the Large London), London, the United Kingdom (Photographs)
  • 2002 - Her Majesty' S Treasury Redevelopment, Whitehall, London, the United Kingdom
  • 2002 - Music Centers, Gateshead, the United Kingdom (Photographs)
  • 2003 - Chesa Futura, Saint-Moritz, Suisse
  • 2004 - New Supreme Court (Supreme court), Singapore
  • 2004 - 30 St Mary Centers or Tour Swiss Re , London, the United Kingdom (Photo)
  • 2004 - Viaduc of Millau, the Midday-Pyrenees, France
  • 2005 - Library of the free Université of Berlin, Germany (Photographs)
  • 2006 - Hearst Tower, New York.

Projects in progress -- 41.221.16.175 (D) November 29th, 2007 with 10:46 (THIS)

External bonds

  • arranges Foster and Partners

  • biography of Norman Foster
  • Norman Foster on ARCHIGUIDE
  • Projet Turn Repsol-YPF, Madrid

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