It was a "peaceful" death that swept away the British architect Richard Rogers, who with Renzo Piano created the Georges-Pompidou center in Paris.
His son Roo Rogers, who confirmed his death, did not specify the cause.
Aged 88, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2007, he was born in Florence in 1933 before fleeing Mussolini's Italy with his family to settle in London.
Richard Rogers is one of the pioneers of the "high-tech" movement, which is distinguished by its glass and steel structures and exposed pipes.
Futuristic
In addition to the Pompidou center in the heart of Paris, which he created in 1971 with his friend Renzo Piano, he designed the headquarters of the Lloyd's insurance company, an architectural UFO inaugurated in 1986 in the City of London.
He also created the building of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, the offices in Berlin on Potsdamer Platz, a terminal at Barajas international airport in Madrid, the "Three World Trade Center" in New York , as well as the "Dome of the millennium" in London, curiosity of the festivities of the year 2000 which earned him the wrath of Prince Charles.
Become Lord Rogers of Riverside, the architect sat from 1996 in the House of Lords, the upper house of the British Parliament, in the ranks of Labor.
With AFP
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