(b Florence, 23 July 1933). English architect of Anglo-Italian descent. A cousin of the Italian architect, ERNESTO NATHAN ROGERS, he emigrated with his family to England in 1938. He studied at the Architectural Association, London, 1954–9 and Yale University, 1961–2. In 1960 he married Su Brumwell, a sociologist and architect. Returning to London, Richard and Su Rogers established the practice Team 4 Architects, with fellow Yale student Norman Foster and his future wife, Wendy. Early commissions included a house at Creek Vean, Cornwall (1966), which recalls, by the way in which it integrates with the landscape and its internal spatial freedom, the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. Their first entirely prefabricated building was the Reliance Controls Electronic Factory, Swindon, Wilts (1967), a simple rectangular building clad in steel decking with an elegantly detailed, cross-braced external steel structure.

• Rogers, Richard
  • collaboration
    • Arup Ove
    • Foster, Norman
    • France, §XII, 5: Patronage: 19th and 20th centuries
    • High Tech
    • Iron and steel, §II, 1(iii): Architecture, after c 1880
    • Museum, §II, 3: Architecture, after 1940
    • Paris, §II, 7: Urban development, after 1945
    • Piano, Renzo
    • Rice, Peter
    • Staircase, §I, 5: Modern
  • competitions
    • Competition, §I, 4: Architecture, after 1900
  • groups and movements
    • Archigram
  • works
    • Aluminium, §2(i): Architecture
    • England, §II, 6: Architecture, after c 1914
    • England, §V, 7: Interior decoration, after 1900
    • Factory
    • France, §II, 5(iv): Architecture, after c 1914: Post-modernism and the Grands Projets
    • Lighting, §2(ii)(b): After c 1800: Uses of artificial lighting
    • London, §II, 6: Urban development, after 1945
    • Machine aesthetic
    • Wales, §II, 2: Architecture, after c 1600