Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank
British architect (born 1935)
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Norman Foster defined the high-tech glass-and-steel look that dominated late-20th-century skylines. His firm is the UK's largest architecture practice; he won the Pritzker Prize in 2000 and now runs a Madrid-based foundation pushing the next generation to think bigger.
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Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, is an English architect. Closely associated with the development of high-tech architecture, Lord Foster is recognised as a key figure in British modernist architecture. His firm, Foster + Partners, first founded in 1967 as Foster Associates, is the largest in the United Kingdom, and operates internationally. He also serves as president of the Norman Foster Foundation, established to "promote interdisciplinary thinking and research to help new generations of architects, designers and urbanists anticipate the future". The foundation, which opene…
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