Richard Rogers: Architecture of the Future

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Richard Rogers: Architecture of the Future, written by the eminent architectural critic Kenneth Powell, provides an up-to-date overview of the work of this leading international architectural practice and is the most reasonably priced monograph on the subject.

Founded in 1977, with offices in London, Barcelona and Tokyo, RRP has a long established reputation for its hi-tech and energy efficient designs. Well known as the architects (with Renzo Piano) of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and for the iconic Lloyd's of London building, the practice's current projects include the new Birmingham Library, the National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff as well as a primary school near Kyoto and the conversion of a Bullring in Barcelona.

RRP has considerable expertise in airport design - notable examples being Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport and Madrid's Barajas Airport, winner of the 2006 RIBA Stirling Prize. This volume also covers the practice's substantial masterplanning projects - key projects featured include a comprehensive masterplan for the Lu Jia Zui district in Shanghai and the masterplan for the Greenwich Peninsula in London.

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About the Author

Kenneth Powell

Kenneth Powell is an architectural critic, consultant and historian based in London. He has written extensively about contemporary architecture for newspapers and journals in Britain and abroad and is the author of many books, including monographs on Richard Rogers, Edward Cullinan, Will Alsop and Ahrends Burton Koralek as well as New London Architecture and New Architecture in Britain. Actively involved in the field of conservation over many years, he is a former Director of The Twentieth Century Society and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.