NORMAN FOSTER
Norman Foster was born in 1935 in a poor area in Manchester England. His father sent him to a private school where he finished his secondary education . He worked for two years before he had to attend the national air force. After the end of the service with the air forces he developed interest and passion for Architecture then he went to study Architecture at the age of 21 after that he had the chance to meet Richard Rogers which they start becoming friends and they start working together in a group called ‘Team 4’ that also included Sue Rodgers and Wendy Foster which later evolved to Foster and Partners. Norman Foster revolutionizes the way we incorporate the environment and nature with ultra modern buildings.
After Team 4 went their separate ways, Foster and Wendy Cheesman founded Foster Associates, which later became Foster and Partners in 1967. A long period of collaboration with American architect Richard Buckminster Fuller began in 1968 and continued until Fuller's death in 1983. They collaborated on several projects that became catalysts in the development of an environmentally sensitive approach to design – including the Samuel Beckett Theatre project.
AN INTERVIEW WITH NORMAN FOSTER