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About Richard Rogers
In 1977, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, co-designed with Renzo Piano, upended architectural orthodoxy by turning its structure inside-out: ducts, escalators, and service pipes became vividly coloured external arteries, declaring that function need not be hidden to be beautiful. That audacity wasn’t just stylistic; it was ideological, a belief that buildings should reveal their logic, invite public engagement, and adapt across generations. Rogers later embedded this ethos into urban policy, advising UK governments on decentralising infrastructure and retrofitting post-industrial sites like London’s Earl’s Court into mixed-use, low-carbon districts. His work insists that sustainability isn’t about adding solar panels to old forms, but rethinking ownership, mobility, and material flows at city scale, evident in the Millennium Dome’s lightweight tensile roof and the Bordeaux Law Courts’ transparent civic layering. He treats steel, glass, and recycled aluminium not as finishes, but as legible, reusable systems, each bolt and joint a decision open to scrutiny, revision, or reuse.
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