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Richard Rogers dies at 88

2021-12-18T17:40:00-05:00

Acclaimed Italian-British architect, Richard Rogers, has passed away at the age of 88. As the NYT reports, news of his passing was confirmed by his son Roo, without a cause of death specified.

A little over a year ago Rogers announced his retirement from his namesake architecture firm, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.

More to follow in coming days...

Read and write in London: the GSD announces 2018 Richard Rogers Fellowship

2017-10-05T14:53:00-04:00

Do you dream of reading and writing for three month in a London glass house? Designed by Lord Rogers in 1968, the Wimbledon house was gifted to Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2015 and now host the participants of the Richard Rochers Fellowship.

Full release follows:

Open to accomplished practitioners and scholars working in fields related to the built environment—application deadline is November 14

Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) announces the 2018 cycle of the Richard Rogers Fellowship, a residency program based at the Wimbledon House, which was designed by Lord Rogers in the late 1960s. The London-based Fellowship is intended to encourage in-depth, original forms of investigation as a way to expand both practice and scholarship. Open to accomplished practitioners and scholars working in fields related to the built environment, the Fellowship seeks research proposals focused on those topics that have been central to Lord Rogers’s life and career, including...

Harvard Graduate School of Design announces Richard Rogers Fellows

2017-02-22T16:01:00-05:00

Harvard’s GSD has announced the 2017 winners of the Richard Rogers Fellowship, a new residency program to be hosted at the Wimbledon House. The Wimbledon House was designed by acclaimed architect Lord Richard Rogers for his parents in the 60s and generously gifted to Harvard.The landmarked residence will house the fellows with the goal of bringing together experts and practitioners across disciplines who are focused on the built environment and its capacity to advance the quality of human life.

Central to Rogers' life and career were the questions of urbanism, sustainability and how people use cities. “The spirit of the Fellowship” said Mohsen Mostafavi, Dean and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design at Harvard GSD “is intended to carry forward and expand on Richard’s deep commitment to cities not as ends in themselves, but as a fundamental means to bettering human life. At the GSD, our work is organized around the urgent issues cities are facing globally, a pedagogical a...

Want to live (and work) in Richard Rogers' Wimbledon House? Apply to Harvard's new Richard Rogers Fellowship

2016-10-12T13:33:00-04:00

The Wimbledon House, a landmarked building designed by Lord Richard Rogers in the late 1960s, has been donated to Harvard Graduate School of Design and will host a new research residency program. Dubbed the Richard Rogers Fellowship, the program is open to accomplished professionals and scholars working in fields related to the built environment.

Accepted applicants, pooled from an international open call, will inhabit the Wimbledon House for three months. Harvard will provide travel expenses to London and a $10,000 USD prize. The residency is intended to foster research around alternative and sustainable futures, in line with Rogers’ own cross-disciplinary, research-driven practice.

The house, a bright yellow modern masterpiece, was originally designed for Rogers’ parents. It will also serve as a venue for lectures and events in 2017.

Applications for the residency are due by November 28, 2016 and winners will be announced in early December.

For more information on the Fellowship, head...