Richard Rogers, the renowned architect behind global landmarks incoluding the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Lloyd’s of London HQ and the Senedd building in Cardiff, has died aged 88.
Lord Rogers, who also designed the Millennium Dome, “passed away quietly” on Saturday evening, Freud Communications’ Matthew Freud told the PA news agency.
He was born in 1933 to an Anglo-Italian family in Florence, Italy and at a young age moved to England, where he later trained at the Architectural Association School of Architure in London before graduating with a master’s from Yale.
His designs, which also include Strasbourg’s European Court of Human Rights, won critical acclaim with the Royal Gold Medal and the Pritzker Prize.
The jury when awarding him the Pritzker in 2017 praised him for having “revolutionised museums, transforming what had once been elite monuments into popular places of social and cultural exchange, woven into the heart of the city”.
He received the Freedom of the City of London at Guildhall Art Gallery in 2014 in recognition of his contribution to architecture and urbanism.
The New York Times reported he is survived by his wife Lady Ruth, sons Ab, Ben, Roo and Zad, his brother Peter and 13 grandchildren.
