'High-Tech Iconoclast' Architect Wins Pritzker Prize

British architect Richard Rogers has won architecture's most prestigious award.

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March 28, 2007, 9:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"In the citation accompanying its decision, to be announced today, the Pritzker jury saluted Mr. Rogers for his 'unique interpretation of the Modern Movement's fascination with the building as machine, an interest in architectural clarity and transparency, the integration of public and private spaces, and a commitment to flexible floor plans that respond to the ever-changing demands of users.'"

"Mr. Rogers earned a reputation as a high-tech iconoclast with the completion of the 1977 Pompidou Center, with its exposed skeleton of brightly colored tubes for mechanical systems. The Pompidou "revolutionized museums," the Pritzker jury said, "transforming what had once been elite monuments into popular places of social and cultural exchange, woven into the heart of the city." Similarly, his 1986 Lloyd's office building in the heart of the London financial district features a inside-out design, with a soaring atrium surrounded by external escalators and elevators."

FULL STORY: Top Prize for Rogers, Iconoclastic Architect

Wednesday, March 28, 2007 in The New York Times

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