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Hamdan Street, Office 302, Level 3, Al Saman Tower B
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| 1 Infinite Loop, MS:21-3AC2 |
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Office 110 Building 8
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American Prize for Design
Good Design Awards
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Save the Children Spain |
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| Pritzker Architecture Prize |
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| Title of Lord Foster by Thames Bank |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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WRITINGS
BY THE ARCHITECT |
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| Norman Foster, "Masdar City e il nuovo Masdar Institute Campus ad Abu Dhabi/Masdar City and the Masdar Institute Campus, Abu Dhabi", L'industria delle costruzioni 419, maggio-giugno/may-june 2011 [Ecocities], pp. 26-35 |
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| Luis Fernandez-Galiano, Norman Foster, (ed.), Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983 [AV Monograph 143], Arquitectura Viva, Madrid 2010 |
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| Foster and Partners, "Il viadotto di Millau" in Alessio Pipinato (ed.), EdA esempi di Architettura 2, 2/2007 [Corridoio V. L'evoluzione nella progettazione delle infrastrutture], "Corridoio V. Gomma: Buone pratiche" pp. 52-53 |
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| Foster & Partners, ADFEC, "UAE: The future now. The world's first carbon-free city", A+. Architecture Plus. Architecture of a New World 16, 2007, "Context. Community & Planning" pp. 104-105 |
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 Norman Foster, Reflections, Prestel, 2005 |
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 Norman Foster, Catalogue. Foster and Partners, Prestel, 2005 |
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| Norman Foster, "Il bacio delle torri: Norman Foster/The kissing towers", Domus 856, febbraio/february 2003, "Servizi/Features" pp. 44-45 (32-49) |
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"La torre e la città/The tower and the city", Domus 840, settembre/september 2001, "Servizi/Features" pp. 36-101
Norman Foster, "Il grattacielo 'responsabile'/The responsible skyscraper", Domus 840, settembre/september 2001, "Servizi/Features" pp. 52-57 (36-101) |
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| Norman Foster, "British Museum, Londres/Great Court, British Museum, London", Arquitectura Viva 77, III-IV 2001 [Mil Museos], "Arquitectura" pp. 40-45 |
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| Norman Foster, "Foster Associates. Carré d'Art, Nîmes", GA Document 37, september 1993, pp. 36-49 |
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| Norman Foster, "Botany 2000. The National Botanic Garden of Wales, Middleton Hall", Landscape Design 270, may 1988 [Millennium projects review], pp. 48-51 |
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| Norman Foster, Three Themes, six projects, Electa, Milano 1988 |
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Jean-Marc Prévost,  Moving. Norman Foster on Art, Ivorypress, 2013 |
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 David Jenkins, Catalogue. Foster + Partners, Prestel Verlag, 2008 |
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| Edoardo Piccoli, "Il superarchitetto che piace ai manager", Il giornale dell'architettura 52, giugno 2007, p. 9 |
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| Philip Jodidio, UK: Architecture in the United Kingdom, Taschen, Köln 2006, p. 107 (107-123) |
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| Norman Foster, Catalogue. Foster and Partners, Prestel, 2005 |
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| Valentina Croci, "Nuovi scenari ecosostenibili/New Eco-Sustainable Scenarios", Ottagono 167, febbraio/february 2004, pp. 140-153 |
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| Deyan Sudjic, "Norman Foster al varco di Ground Zero/Waiting in the wings: Norman Foster and Ground Zero", Domus 856, febbraio/february 2003, "Post Script - Ripensamenti/Reputations" pp. 138-139 |
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| David Jenkins, Hashim Sarkis, Norman Foster. Works 1, Prestel USA, 2003 |
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| Philip Jodidio, Architecture Now!, Taschen, Köln 2001, pp. 94-99 |
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| Giuseppe Zampieri, "Foster in Gran Bretagna/Foster in Britain", Domus 825, aprile/april 2000, "Itinerario/Itinerary 166" pp. 120-128 |
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| Philip Jodidio, Building a new millennium, Taschen, Köln 2000, pp. 164-165 (164-175) |
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| Mario Antonio Arnaboldi, "Il Premio Pritzker/To Sir Norman Foster", L'Arca 139, luglio-agosto/july-august 1999 [Strutture/Structures], "l'Arca2" p. 98 |
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| GA Document Extra 12, 1999 [Norman Foster] |
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Martin Pawley, Norman Foster. A Global Architecture, Thames & Hudson, London 1999
tr. it.: Norman Foster. Architettura Globale, Rizzoli, 1999 |
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| Daniel Treibler, Norman Foster, E & FN Spon, London 1992 |
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| Ian Lambot (ed.), Norman Foster. Team Four and Foster Associates. Buildings and Projects 1964-1973. Volume I, Watermark Publications, 1991 |
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| Ian Lambot (ed.), Norman Foster. Foster Associates. Buildings and Projects 1971-1978. Volume 2, Watermark Publications, 1990 |
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| Ian Lambot (ed.), Norman Foster. Foster Associates. Buildings and Projects 1978-1985. Volume 3, Watermark Publications, 1990 |
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| Aldo Benedetti, Norman Foster, Zanichelli, Milano 1988 |
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| François Chaslin, Frédérique Hervet, Armelle Lavalou, Norman Foster, Electa Moniteur, 1986 |
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| Norman Foster, Tony Hunt, George Weidenfeld, Richard Rogers, Bono, Deyan Sudjic, Paul Goldberger, Carl Abbott, Alain de Botton, Anish Kapoor, Richard Serra, Anthony Caro, Richard Long, Buckminster Fuller, Ben Cowd, Cai Guo-Qiang, Ricky Burdett, Spencer de Grey, David Nelson, Narinder Sagoo, Nigel Dancey, Loretta Law, Mouzhan Madidi, Stefan Behling, Jurgen Happ, Gerard Evenden
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Protagonist
 Tracing Lord Foster’s career, from his childhood in Manchester to the global practice that he founded and chairs, the documentary looks at his architecture, why it matters and how difficult it is to do well. The film uses cinematography to capture the spectacular scale of projects such as the Millau Viaduct, Beijing Airport and Swiss Re, on the big screen for the first time.
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| Soren Larson, "Pritzker winner Sir Norman Foster mixes technology with humanism", Architectural record 5/1999, "Record News" p. 95 |
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Norman Foster, Paris [France], Centre Pompidou (Galerie 1, level 6), 10 may / 7 august 2023
 Covering nearly two thousand two hundred square metres, the Centre Pompidou’s retrospective exhibition dedicated to Norman Foster in Galerie 1 reviews the different periods in the architect’s work and highlights his cutting-edge creations, such as the headquarters of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (Hong Kong, 1979-1986), the Carré d’Art (Nîmes, 1984-1993), Hong Kong International Airport (1992-1998) and Apple Park (Cupertino, United States, 2009-2017).
The scenography of the exhibition was designed by Norman Foster and executed in collaboration with Foster + Partners and the Norman Foster Foundation.
The layout unfolds in the course of seven themes, Nature and Urbanity; Skin and Bones; Vertical City; History and Tradition; Planning and Place; Networks and Mobility and Future. Drawings, sketches, original scale models and dioramas, along with many videos, enable visitors to discover around 130 major projects. Welcoming visitors at the entrance to the exhibition, a drawing gallery showcases items never seen before in France, consisting of drawings, sketchbooks, sketches and photographs taken by the architect.
Because they constitute Norman Foster's sources of inspiration and resonate with his architecture, works by Fernand Léger, Constantin Brancusi, Umberto Boccioni and Ai Wei Wei are also presented in the exhibition, along with industrial creations, a glider and automobiles.
Any encounter with the work of architect Norman Foster immediately conjures up what seems to be his most striking projects, those that are synonymous with the image of a city, a region or, more simply, have changed the shape of a site or the configuration of a location or a square.
Large airports, transport networks, tall buildings, the headquarters of large companies, public buildings, major structures, urban development programmes, museums... with several hundred projects studied or completed throughout the world, Norman Foster has engaged with the full complexity of the organisation of great industrial societies.
The Centre Pompidou dedicates a major retrospective exhibition to the British architect in the very building that was among the first manifestations of the " High Tech " architectural trend of which Norman Foster is considered to be a leader. Foster founded the Team 4 agency in London in 1963 with Wendy Cheesman and Richard Rogers who, along with Renzo Piano, would be the architect of the Centre Pompidou in 1977. In 1967 Foster founded his Foster Associates practice, which became Foster and Partners in 1992.
Norman Foster imposed the image of a practice that has preserved its identity as a global agency always open to research and innovation, and which integrates all technical, economic, social and environmental dimensions in its projects. A broader understanding of the concept of environment as including nature and the whole biosphere is a central preoccupation in his work. He identifies high technology with a technosphere that monitors the destructive effects of the industrial world with an economy that is compatible with life on earth.
This global concept combining the deployment of technologies with a comprehension of the concept of environment is founded on the work of Richard Buckminster Fuller, the American architect with whom Foster worked on various projects. Thus, as early as the 1960s and 1970s, at a time when industrial society was waking up to environmental challenges, Norman Foster participated in the emergence of the ecological movement and its development in the course of more contemporary projects. |
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 Norman Foster (concept and design), Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture, Bilbao (Spain), Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 8 april / 18 september 2022
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture, sponsored by Iberdrola and Volkswagen Group. The exhibition celebrates the artistic dimension of the automobile and links it to the parallel worlds of painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and film. Taking a holistic approach, the exhibition challenges the separate silos of these disciplines and explores how they are visually and culturally linked.
 The exhibition considers the affinities between technology and art, showing for example how use of the wind tunnel helped to aerodynamically shape the automobile to go faster with more economic use of power. This streamlining revolution was echoed in works of the Futurist movement and by other artists of the period. It was also reflected in the industrial design of everything from household appliances to locomotives. The exhibition brings together around forty automobiles – each the best of its kind in such terms as beauty, rarity, technical progress and a vision of the future. These are placed centre stage in the galleries and surrounded by significant works of art and architecture. Many of these have never before left their homes in private collections and public institutions, and as such, are being presented to a wider audience for the first time.
The exhibition is spread over ten spaces in the museum. Each of seven galleries is themed in a roughly chronological order. These start with Beginnings and continue as Sculptures, Popularising, Sporting, Visionaries and Americana and close with a gallery dedicated to what the future of mobility may hold.
 Future shows the work of a younger generation of students from sixteen schools of design and architecture on four continents, who were invited by the Norman Foster Foundation to imagine what mobility might be at the end of the century, coinciding roughly with the 200th anniversary of the birth of the automobile.
The remaining four spaces comprise a corridor containing a timeline and immersive sound experience, a live clay-modelling studio and an area devoted to models.
Unlike any other single invention, the automobile has completely transformed the urban and rural landscape of our planet and in turn our lifestyle. We are on the edge of a new revolution of electric power, so this exhibition could be seen as a requiem for the last days of combustion. |
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| City Visions: A Sustainable Future, Wuhan (China), Big House, 8 may / 15 june 2017 |
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Craft + Manufacture: Industrial Design by Foster + Partners, London, The Aram Gallery, 12 may / 2 july 2016
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| Foster + Partners: Architecture, Urbanism, Innovation, Tokyo, Mori Art Museum, 1 january / 14 february 2016 |
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| The Brits Who Built the Modern World. 1950-2012, London, RIBA’s new Architecture Gallery, 13 february / 27 may 2014 |
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| Norman Foster (ed.), Gateway, Venezia, Arsenale, 29 august / 25 november 2012 [ » read more ] |
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| Architecting the Future: Buckminster Fuller & Norman Foster, Miami, Miami Design District, 29 november / 4 december 2011 |
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Dallas, Nasher Sculpture Center, 26 september 2009 / 10 january 2010
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 27 august / 22 september 2011
Shanghai, Shanghai Oil Painting and Sculpture Institute, 25 july / 25 august 2012
Kuala Lumpur, Galeri Petronas, 7 march / 12 may 2013
Bangkok, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), 4 april / 29 june 2014 |
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| Norman Foster Dibujos. 1958-2008, Madrid, Ivorypress, 1 / 19 september 2009 |
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Foster + Partners. Working with history
München, Lenbachhaus Museum, 21 october / 22 february 2009
København [Copenhagen], DAC - Danish Architecture Centr, 19 june / 30 august 2009 |
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