NORMAN FOSTER

British Architect
 Norman Robert Foster

Norman Foster, in full Lord Norman Foster of Thames Bank,

original name in full Norman Robert Foster, (born June 1,
1935, Manchester England), prominent British architect
known for his sleek, modern buildings made of steel and
glass.
Foster was trained at the University of Manchester (1956–
61) in England and Yale University (1961–62) in New Haven,
Connecticut. Beginning in 1963, he worked in partnership
with Richard and Su Rogers and his wife, Wendy Foster, in a
firm called Team 4. In 1967 he established his own firm
called Foster Associates .
 The Sainsbury Centre
for the Visual Arts
(1974–78) Norwich, England

The first fosters buildings to receive international

acclaim were The Sainsbury for the visual arts. It is an art
gallery and museum located on the campus of The
University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. The building
is made up of vast, airy-glass and metal-paneled shed.
The Sainsbury shared a belief that the study of art
should be an informal, pleasurable experience, not
bound by the traditional enclosure of object and viewer.
 A futuristic steel and glass office
building with a stepped profile
and the largest bank in Hong
Kong and operates branches
and offices throughout the Asia
pacific region and in other
countries around the world.

The Hong Kong and Shanghai

Banking Corporation
headquarters (1979–86) in Hong Kong
Foster established himself as one of the world's leader
in high-tech design, for the latter building, he had
ingeniously moved elements such a elevators to the
exterior of the building, where they could be easily
serviced and thus created open plans in the Centre
spaces including The Hong Kong office and The
Commerzbank Tower.

The Commerzbank
Tower
(1991–97) Frankfurt am Main
Germany
 Stansted
(1981–91) outside London

Chek Lap Kok

(1992–98) in Hong Kong
 American Air Museum
(1987–97) Duxford (England)
airfield

The Reichstag
(1992–99) in Berlin
 The British Museum
(1994–2000) in London

The Smithsonian
Institution’s Patent
Office Building
(2004–07) in Washington,
D.C.
 London’s City
Hall
(1999–2002)

The recipient of numerous awards for his work—including

the Pritzker Prize (1999), the Japan Art Association’s Praemium
Imperiale prize for architecture (2002), and the Aga Khan
Award (2007) for his design of the Petronas University of
Technology in Malaysia—Foster was knighted in 1990 and
granted a life peerage in 1999.