Richard Rogers
Richard Rogers was born in Florence, Tuscany, in 1933 into an Anglo-Italian family. He was a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs in high-tech architecture. Rogers was perhaps best known for his work on the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Lloyd's building and Millennium Dome, both in London, the Senedd building, in Cardiff, and the European Court of Human Rights building, in Strasbourg.