Letter from London

摘要

Foster, Rogers, Hopkins, Farrell, Grimshaw - the dominant architects in the UK for five decades - are the subject of a forthcoming BBC TV programme (working title: Britain's Masters of Modern Architecture), which will assess their work in its social and cultural context. Not before time. And this week an excellent Royal Academy exhibition marks Richard Rogers' 80th birthday and reminds us of the 1986 Foster Rogers Stirling show celebrating the international status of the trio, whose relationship established itself when they were together in Yale in 1960, Foster and Rogers as graduate students, Stirling as teacher. Intervening years have seen the consolidation of their reputations, with Stirling's untimely death leaving a question mark over what might have emerged.