Norman FOSTER (1935~)

FOSTER ASSOCIATES / FOSTER + PARTNERS (1967~)

British architect who exerted a decisive influence on the British architectural scene, with important successors to the high-tech architecture there emerging from his circle of collaborators | 1935 born in Manchester, England | 1961 receives scholarship for “Yale School of Art and Architecture” | 1965 establishes “Team 4” with Richard ROGERS | 1967 founds “Foster Associates” | 1980s designs the HSBC Main Building in Hong Kong – at the time the most expensive building ever constructed | 1990 raised to the knighthood | 1997 appointed to the “Order of Merit” (OM) | 1999 receives Pritzker Architecture Prize | 2002 becomes member of the Prussian order “Pour le Mérite” | 2002 honoured by Praemium Imperiale awarded by Japanese imperial house