Richard Rogers + Architectes

摘要

Richard Rogers has an unusually cosmopolitan background. Born in Italy of Anglo-Italian parents, he trained at the age of twenty in the Trieste office of his father's cousin, the architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers, before attending London's then staunchly modernist Architectural Association (1954-59). In Italy, Ernesto's struggle to reconcile modern and historical architecture and his visionary urban schemes for more humane cities were a lifelong influence on Rogers, as were the aesthetic and ethical views of Alison and Peter Smithson in Great Britain. These two influences produced a lasting tension in Rogers's work between New Liberty and New Brutalist sensibilities, with details of the engineered structure often expressing the various gravitational and cultural forces that inform the building. The year Rogers spent at Yale University (1961) and his travels across the United States at that time were also major factors in the architect's formation.