Richard Rogers, the architect of the Pompidou in Paris and Madrid Airport T4, dies

The Italian-British architect Richard Rogers has died at the age of 88 years. At the moment no further details have been disclosed about the cause of his death.

Rogers of Riverside had been a member of the House of Lords since 1997 and in 2007 received the Pritzker Prize, considered the “nobel of architecture”. It was the author in collaboration with the study of the Spanish Antonio Lamela de la new terminal T4 at Adolfo Suárez airport from Madrid – Barajas.

Also among his most recognized works are the center Pompidou de Paríso he Human Rights Tribunal from Strasbourg.

Born in the Italian city of Florence on July 23, 1933 into an English family, he spent only five years of his childhood in Italy, until the family moved to London.

Study Architecture at the London Architectural Association and then he expanded his training at Yale University (USA).

Defender of the city’s potential as a catalyst for social change, the British architect considered architecture as much an urban problem as a political issue.

He defended the compact city as the only formula for a sustainable city, which has marked milestones in the history of contemporary architecture. His defense of energy performance and sustainability has left its mark on the profession.

His works in Spain

In Spain it built the new terminal at the Madrid airport Barajas -T 4- (1997-2005), together with the Spanish Antonio Lamela, inaugurated in February 2006. For this work he received the “Stirling” award for architecture, the most important in the United Kingdom, awarded each year by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Other examples of its architectural modernity in Spain are the Bodegas Protos de Peñafiel building (1993-1999), in Valladolid; the Balearic Park of Technological Innovation “ParcBIT” (1995-2001), active in Mallorca since 2002; the Hesperia Barcelona Hotel and Convention Center (1999-2006); and the remodeling of the old Las Arenas de Barcelona bullring into a leisure center (2000-2006).