British architect Richard Rogers has gifted the seminal Wimbledon property he made for his mothers and fathers in the late 1960s to the Harvard Graduate College of Layout.
Featuring a radically flexible interior, the Grade II*-listed Rogers Residence in south London was created and completed by Rogers and his then wife Su in between 1967 and 1969 at the commence of his career. It is cited by the architect as a precursor to the Pompidou Centre he designed with Renzo Piano.
The house has been owned by Rogers’ family members given that it was constructed. Rogers’ son Ab and his household moved into the house in 1998, and it was adapted and extended prior to getting put up for sale in 2013 for £3.two million.
Major picture, this image: photograph by Tim Crocker
A sale never took area and the residence was taken off the market. Rogers’ charity, the Richard Rogers Charitable Settlement, has now donated it to the Harvard style school, delivering a resource for college students studying architecture.
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Speaking to London magazine the Architects’ Journal, Rogers mentioned: “The house will be a gift to Harvard for coaching of doctorates in the area of architecture – my charity is giving it to them.”
Ahead of the home is handed more than, it will be renovated and restored by architect Philip Gumuchjian, who worked at the Richard Rogers Partnership prior to the firm was renamed Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.
“Philip Gumuchjian will put the property back to what it was,” added Rogers.
Photograph by Tim Crocker
Rogers Home is regarded as 1 of the most important modern day houses in the United kingdom. The single-storey constructing boasts a yellow-painted steel frame and glazed facades, while moveable partitions within let residents to reconfigure the area.
It was granted a Grade II* heritage listing in 2013, 5 months prior to it was place up for sale. Culture minister Ed Vaizey described it as “a masterpiece from a single of the most imaginative and thrilling intervals in personal property creating in this nation”.
Archive photograph of the property when owned by Dada and William Nino Rogers
“Even though many will always associate Lord Rogers with iconic functions like the Lloyds Creating in London, the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Nationwide Assembly of Wales in Cardiff, this a lot earlier constructing is highly important too,” Vaizey said.
In an interview with Dezeen in 2013, Rogers said: “If you seem at the property in Wimbledon for my parents, which is a single-storey home, it truly is steel and hugely insulated, it really is transparent, the bathroom is really compact and all the partitions can move – you can see a link from that to the Pompidou with the variation getting about a thousand times the scale.”
