The Pompidou Center is devoting a masterful retrospective to the architect Norman Foster. Yukio Futagawa
PORTRAIT – The Center Pompidou celebrates the planetary work of this builder, researcher and urban planner, in a masterful exhibition. Portrait of a giant crazy about aviation, who has made it the metaphor of his discipline for six decades.
See you soon 88 years old, Norman Foster – or rather Lord Foster after being dubbed peer of the kingdom by the queen in 1999 -, it is the story of the perfect success of a young Englishman, son of an accountant and a mother cashier, modest family of Reddish, in the working cl suburb of Manchester. Starting from nothing – he left school at 16 and did odd jobs to finance his studies, after military service in the Royal Air Force where his pion for aeronautics matured – the Yale graduate, a scholarship in his pocket for the United States, knew how to provoke the chance of his meteoric rise. “There, I discovered myself and I met Richard Rogers with whom I founded, back in England, my firm Team 4, along with our wives, Wendy Foster and Su Rogers. The adventure will last five years, until 1967. It will continue with a short collaboration with Renzo Piano, before setting up Foster ociates, renamed Foster + Partners. The beginnings of the success of a war machine…
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