Week 1 Task

Norman Robert Foster

Norman Robert Foster is a British architect and his company maintains an international design practice. He is Britain's most prolific builder of landmark office buildings. He is awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1999 and awarded the Stirling Prize for two times.

He was born in Reddish, Stockport, England in 1935. He set up an architectural practice in 1963 as Team 4 with Rogers and the sisters Georgie and Wendy Cheesman. Team 4 earned a reputation for high-tech industrial design. After Team 4 went their separate ways, Foster and Wendy Cheesman founded Foster Associates in 1967 which later became Foster and Partners.

Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Foster,_Baron_Foster_of_Thames_Bank

Image credits:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Norman_Foster_dresden_061110.jpg

Designer's work:

Reichstag Dome, Berlin

The Swiss Re Building, London, 2003

Image Credits:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Germany_berlin_reichstag-1.jpg

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:30_St_Mary_Axe,_%27Gherkin%27.JPG