Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, was a British-Italian architect noted for his modernist and constructivist designs in high-tech architecture. He was a senior partner at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, previously known as the Richard Rogers Partnership, until June 2020.
Rogers in 2013
The Lloyd's Building in London at night
The Pompidou Centre in Paris
Rogers (left) with Queen Elizabeth II and Sue Essex AM (right), at the opening of the Senedd building
Constructivist architecture
Constructivist architecture was a constructivist style of modern architecture that flourished in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s. Abstract and austere, the movement aimed to reflect modern industrial society and urban space, while rejecting decorative stylization in favor of the industrial assemblage of materials. Designs combined advanced technology and engineering with an avowedly communist social purpose. Although it was divided into several competing factions, the movement produced many pioneering projects and finished buildings, before falling out of favor around 1932. It has left marked effects on later developments in architecture.
Tatlin's Tower, The Monument to the Third International, 1919 (Vladimir Tatlin)
Shukhov Tower, Moscow, 1922. Currently under threat of demolition, but with an international campaign to save it.
The print shop of Ogonyok magazine designed by El Lissitzky
Zuev Workers' Club, 1927