'How can we be expected to make an architect out of a man who cannot make two lines meet?' demanded one of Richard Rogers' tutors at the AA in an awkward meeting with his parents, Nino and Dada. Rogers was indeed very bad at drawing, and it was another tutor, James Gowan, who spotted that he got his then girlfriend Georgie Cheeseman to help. She was briefly to be the only fully qualified architect on the letterhead of Team Four (making it five people at first) when the practice set up in 1963 - the other four being Rogers' first wife Su Brumwell, his friend Norman Foster whom he had met post-AA at Yale, and Georgie's younger sister Wendy, later to become Foster's wife. Emotionally and professionally, Rogers always needed a supportive gang around him, always found one, and always stayed friends with everyone.
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