British architect Richard Rogers, responsible for such outstanding facilities as the Pompidou Center in Paris, the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg, the London Millennium Dome o la Barajas Airport Terminal 4, has died at 88 years of age.
The death of Rogers has been confirmed this Sunday by his son Roo to the New York Times and by the Freud communication agency to the British media.
The Florence-born architect won a number of awards for his designs, including the Pritzker Prize for Architecture 2007, and is one of the pioneers of the “high-tech” architecture movement, distinguished by structures that incorporate industrial materials such as glass and steel.
He is the co-creator of the Pompidou Center, opened in 1977 and famous for its multi-colored façade covered in pipes, which he designed with the Italian architect Renzo Piano.
Rogers and the also benchmark of architecture Norman Foster are known as the leaders of a generation of architects born in the 1930s who helped shape the modern landscapes of London, Paris, Hong Kong or New York.
When he received the Pritzker, architecture’s highest honor, in 2007, the jury cited his “unique interpretation of the Modern Movement’s fascination with the building as a machine” he described as a man who “revolutionized museums, transforming what were once elite monuments into popular places, of social and cultural exchange, woven in the heart of the city “.
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