The 88-year-old 2007 Pritzker Prize winner Richard Rogers "passed away peacefully," Matthew Freud, president and founder of communications agency Freuds, told UK news agency PA. According to the New York Times, her son Roo Rogers has confirmed his death, the cause of which has not been specified.
"Very moved to learn of the disappearance of Richard Rogers, architect of genius of our building with his accomplice Renzo Piano", reacted on Twitter the Center Pompidou.
"Immense sadness", meanwhile tweeted the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, "Richard Rogers was a visionary, an architect, a talented artist, free and inspiring. He loved Paris. To his family, to his relatives I address all my condolences".
The American architecture critic Paul Goldberger lamented a "new immense loss for architecture in 2021" and hailed on the social network "a courteous man and a formidable talent".
Born in Florence in 1933 before fleeing Mussolini's Italy with his family to settle in London, Richard Rogers is one of the pioneers of the "high-tech" movement, which is distinguished by its glass and glass structures. steel and its visible pipes.
In addition to the Pompidou center in the heart of Paris, which he created in 1971 with his friend Renzo Piano, he designed the headquarters of the Lloyd's insurance company, an architectural UFO inaugurated in 1986 in the City of London.
He also created the building of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, the offices in Berlin on Potsdamer Platz, a terminal at Barajas international airport in Madrid, the "Three World Trade Center" in New York , as well as the "Dome of the millennium" in London, curiosity of the festivities of the year 2000 which earned him the wrath of Prince Charles.
Become Lord Rogers of Riverside, the architect sat from 1996 in the House of Lords, the upper house of the British Parliament, in the ranks of Labor.