Founder and Executive Chairman, Foster + Partners
Norman Foster is a renowned architect and urbanist. As the founder and executive chairman of the global practice Foster and Partners, he has received many prestigious awards for innovation and design excellence, including the Pritzker Prize, Gold Medals of the Royal Institute of British Architects, American Institute of Architects and Japan’s Praemium Imperiale. He was appointed a life peer by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1999, taking the title Lord Foster of Thames Bank.
Projects include the Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, Norwich, England; the Great Court of the British Museum; the remodeling of Trafalgar Square; the Reichstag – a new German Parliament in Berlin; Beijing and Hong Kong airports; and towers in New York for Hearst and J.P. Morgan.
He is the president of the Norman Foster Foundation and its Institute for Sustainable Cities, which promotes holistic teamwork and research to help new generations of design professionals to anticipate the future. The institute’s one-year master’s course focuses on the urban issues of cities and civic leadership.
