"Buildings + Cities" Conference with Richard Rogers

The conference will be held with the support of Bahçeşehir University on Tuesday, 3 November at the university's Beşiktaş Campus.

About Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2007, the RIBA Gold Medal in 1985 and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Medal in 1999. Rogers also received the Praemium Imperiale Award for architecture in 2000, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (La Biennale di Venezia) in 2006 and the Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal in 2007. Awarded the Légion d'Honneur in 1986, Richard Rogers was knighted in 1991 and was made a member of the "Order of the Companions of Honour" in 2008.

In 1995, he became the first architect invited to give the BBC Reith Lectures, titled "Cities for a Small Planet". In 1998, he was appointed by the Deputy Prime Minister to chair the UK Government's Urban Task Force. He advised on urban planning during the term of former London Mayor Ken Livingstone and continues to serve as a design advisor in the team of Mayor Boris Johnson. He has also served as an advisor to the Barcelona Mayor's Urban Strategies Council.

Richard Rogers served as Vice Chair of the Arts Council of Great Britain and at the Tate Gallery. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Richard Rogers's firm, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, was founded in 1977 and has offices in London, Barcelona, Madrid, New York and Tokyo. The firm is known for buildings such as the Pompidou, the Lloyd's headquarters in London, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the Millennium Dome in London.

The firm has worked and continues to work on projects such as Terminal 4 at Madrid Barajas Airport, winner of the 2006 Stirling Prize; Terminal 5 at London Heathrow Airport; two metro stations in Naples; the Leadenhall Building in London; a large office building in Canary Wharf; one of the office towers on the World Trade Center site in New York; two office buildings in Washington; mixed-use buildings in Seoul and Florence; large housing projects in west London, Taipei and Oxley Woods; the Bodegas Protos winery in Spain; Maggie's Centre in London; and the British Museum extension, also in London. The firm has master planning experience in London, Lisbon, Berlin, New York and Seoul. The firm is also a participant in the Greater Paris Project, which looks at the city's future as an integrated metropolitan region facing the social and environmental challenges of the 21st century.