THE WORLD ACCORDING TO RICHARD ROGERS

摘要

It's four decades since the members of Team 4, the seminal practice that briefly united Lords Rogers and Foster, went their separate ways. And it's 30 since Rogers turned the world of architecture inside out with the opening of the Pompidou Centre in Paris. To mark this double anniversary and the launch of an exhibition of Rogers' work at the Pompidou Centre, Building went to visit the older (by two years) of British architecture's two grand old men, armed with 10 questions that friends, well-wishers, collaborators, rivals, clients and family have always wanted to ask him. The questions range from the inquiring to the downright impertinent and start by drawing on three themes close to Rogers' heart…