Italian-British architect, Richard Rogers, died on Saturday at his home in London at the age of 88. As the NYT reports, news of his passing was confirmed by his son Roo Rogers, confirmed the death. without a cause of death specified.
Rogers was perhaps best known for his work on the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Lloyd’s building, and Millennium Dome both in London, the Senedd building in Cardiff, and the European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg. Rogers received a number of other awards, including the Japan Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale prize for architecture in 2000 and the Pritzker Prize in 2007. In 1995 he became the first architect to deliver the annual BBC Reith Lectures, a series of radio talks; these were later published as Cities for a Small Planet (1997). Rogers was knighted in 1991 and was made a life peer in 1996. In 2008 he was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour.
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