Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside

Richard George Rogers was born into an Anglo-Italian family in Florence, Italy, and relocated to England on the eve of World War II. Overcoming severe dyslexia, he studied at the Architectural Association in London and Yale School of Architecture, where he formed Team 4 with Norman Foster. In 1971, Rogers and Italian architect Renzo Piano won an international competition to design a cultural centre in Paris.

Their design for the Centre Georges Pompidou (opened 1977) stunned the world by turning the building inside-out, placing escalators, elevators, water pipes, and air conditioning ducts on the exterior in bold primary colors to create vast, flexible interior public spaces. Rogers followed with the stunning Lloyd's building in London (1986), the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, Madrid-Barajas Airport Terminal 4, and 3 World Trade Center in New York. He received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2007.