| Born 1935, Manchester, UK After completing a degree in Architecture and City Planning at Manchester University, went on to Yale University to receive a Master's degree. In 1963, formed the 4 member team with Richard Rogers, in London. Established Foster & Associates in 1967. Created architectural works with Buckminster Fuller from 1968 to 1983. Currently president of Foster & Partners. Recipient of the R.I.B.A. Royal Gold Medal for Architecture in 1983 and American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for Architecture in 1994. | | |
| | Our skin, our clothes and our house are three enclosures in which we live.
The house, our third skin, is our nest. Our home, along with our clothing, is the enclosure which creates our haven, our sanctum.
A house in the trees - a romantic escape which was almost certainly doodled with one of my sons when we talked about the idea years ago. But how could we have been so naive as to suggest fixing it directly into the trunk?!
All kinds of possibilities suggest themselves, for example bindings which might, like the techniques of securing bamboo scaffolding in Hong Kong, deflect in the wind and accept movement over time. | |
