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SIR RICHARD ROGERS, GABARRON VISUAL ARTS 2011 AWARD-WINNER:
“For the dynamism and originality of a work of architecture that is characterized by a balanced combination of functionality and beauty and for its commitment to social and environmental challenges of our time, particularly reflected in a work marked by urban sustainability.
The relevance of his international career is evident in works such as the George Pompidou Center in Paris, Terminal 4 of Barajas Airport, Lisbon’s urban planning, the management of metropolitan Paris and London and the architectural design for Ground 0 in New York. The jury also acknowledged his relationship with Castilla y León, which is evident in the implementation of Bodegas Protos and through urban planning for the city of Valladolid of the reclaimed AVE land burial, which will provide, in their own words, a ‘new skin’ in the urban fabric.”
These were the words in the announcement of the jury decision for the Gabarron International Award of Visual Arts 2011. The jury recognized Sir Richard Rogers' career under the presidency of Ms. Mercedes Cantalapiedra Álvarez and acting secretary Mr. Alfredo Mateos Paramio. Members of the jury include: Mr. Arranz Vidal Martin, Director of El Mundo de Castilla y León, Mr. Marcos Ricardo Barnatán Hodari, Writer and Art critic of El Mundo, Ms. Mercedes Cantalapiedra Alvarez, 1st Deputy Mayor and Councilor for Culture, Trade and Tourism of the City Council of Valladolid, Mr. Jesus Fonseca Escartin, Director of La Razón Castilla y León, Ms. Catalina Luca de Tena y García Conde, President-Editor of the newspaper ABC, Mr. Alfredo Mateos Paramio, Director of Karavonisia.org
Biography
Richard Rogers is the 2011 Gabarron Award of Visual Arts, the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, the recipient of the RIBA Gold Medal in 1985 and winner of the 1999 Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal. He is also winner of the 2000 Praemium Imperiale Prize for Architecture, the 2006 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (La Biennale di Venezia) and the 2007 Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal. Richard Rogers was awarded the Légion d’Honneur in 1986, knighted in 1991 and made a life peer in 1996. Most recently, in 2008 he was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour. In 1995, he was the first architect ever invited to give the BBC Reith Lectures – a series entitled ‘Cities for a Small Planet’ – and in 1998 was appointed by the Deputy Prime Minister to chair the UK Government’s Urban Task Force. on the state of our cities. He was Chief Advisor on Architecture and Urbanism to the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone and has played an advisory role on design to the current Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. He has also been an Advisor to the Mayor of Barcelona’s Urban Strategies Council. Richard Rogers has served as Chairman of the Tate Gallery and Deputy Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain. He is currently an Honorary Trustee of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Trustee of Médicins du Monde and President of The National Communities Resource Centre. Richard Rogers’ practice - Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (formerly Richard Rogers Partnership) - was founded in 1977 and has offices in London, Barcelona, Madrid, New York and Tokyo. It is best known for such pioneering buildings as the Centre Pompidou, the headquarters for Lloyd’s of London, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the Millennium Dome in London. The practice has worked – or is currently working – on a wide range of projects including: Maggie’s Centre in London, winner of the 2009 Stirling Prize, Terminal 4 at Madrid Barajas Airport, winner of the 2006 Stirling Prize, Terminal 5 at London’s Heathrow Airport; two underground stations in Naples; the Leadenhall Building in the City of London, Riverside South, a major office development in CanaryWharf, East London, one of the office towers on the World Trade Center site in New York and two office developments in Washington DC; mixed-use developments in Seoul and Florence; major residential developments in west London and in Taipei and the Oxley Woods housing scheme in Milton Keynes; Bodegas Protos, a winery in Spain; and an extension for the British Museum in London. The practice has a wealth of experience in urban master planning with major schemes in London, Lisbon, Berlin, New York, and Shanghai Pudong. It is participating in the Greater Paris project, which looks at the future of the city as a more integrated metropolitan region as it faces the social and environmental challenges of the 21st century.
Awards
2008 Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour 2007 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize The Minerva Medal Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal 2006 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (La Biennale di Venezia) 2000 Praemium Imperiale Architecture Laureate 1999 The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal In Architecture 1997 Friend of Barcelona 1996 Life Baron of the United Kingdom 1991 Knighthood 1989 American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters: Arnold W Brunner Memorial Prize Honorary Member, Bund Deutscher Architekten 1986 Chevalier, l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur 1985 The Royal Gold Medal for Architecture 1984-87 Academician, International Academy of Architecture Member United Nations Architects’ Committee Member RIBA Council and Policy Committees 1984 Royal Academician, London 1983 Membre de l’Academie d’Architecture
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