Norman Foster

Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM (born 1 June 1935) is a British architect.

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OM - 1 June - 1935 - British - Architect

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Foster was born in Manchester and educated at the University of Manchester and at Yale University. He worked for the visionary Buckminster Fuller before meeting with Richard Rogers, creating Team 4 and in 1967 Foster Associates.

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Manchester - University of Manchester - Yale University - Buckminster Fuller - Richard Rogers - Foster Associates

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His designs were originally a stylish, machine influenced high-tech but he has moved away from this to a more sublime, more acceptable sharp-edged modernity.

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He is known to some in the UK - pejoratively - as an über- or superstar-architect, the accusation being that certain architects are given preferential status based on their fame.

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