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Rogers, Ernesto Nathan
(b Trieste, 16 March 1909; d Gardone, 7 Nov 1969). Italian architect, writer and teacher. He graduated from the Polytechnic of Milan in 1932, with Gian Luigi Banfi, Ludovico Belgiojoso and Enrico Peressutti, with whom he soon after formed BBPR ARCHITECTURAL STUDIO. In the period between the two World Wars an account of his activities virtually coincides with the engagements of BBPR as a whole. In the post-war period, however, Rogers distinguished himself from his partners through his work as journalist, critic and architectural publicist. Associated with art and architecture periodicals from his student days, he co-edited Quadrante from 1933 to 1936, and as a prolific writer, as well as architect, he was instrumental in the establishment of Razionalismo (see RATIONALISM (ii)). During his internment in Switzerland (1943–5) he maintained his interest in journalism as well as being active in the anti-Fascist Partito d’Azione. On his return to Milan he took over Domus as publisher–editor (1946–7), developing its international reputation as an architectural periodical. Rogers’s major contribution to European architectural polemic, and the Italian Neo-Liberty debate in particular, was through his editorship of Casabella in the key period 1953 to 1964. The group of architects including Aldo Rossi, Vittorio Gregotti and Giancarlo de Carlo, with whom he conducted the debate through Casabella columns, and through artefacts and writings, continued to influence European and American architecture. Rogers played a vital role in the transition from post-war Rationalism to acceptance of historical context as a major determinant of style. He lectured and taught widely, becoming a lecturer at the Polytechnic in Milan from 1962 and a professor in 1964.
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