Architect Foster opens a center mapping his career in Madrid
Madrid - World-renowned British architect Norman Foster, who celebrates his eighty-second birthday today, will open his center in Madrid today. It will showcase around 74,000 items, including sketches and models of buildings that trace his fifty-year career. On this occasion, Foster's foundation is organizing a forum at the Madrid opera titled The Future is Now, where the prospects of architecture will be discussed. According to the APA agency, up to 2,000 architects, designers, and other guests are expected.
The main goal of Foster's center in Madrid will not be to showcase his majestic works, but to educate new generations. It will primarily host seminars and courses for young architects and designers. "I would like the center to be a laboratory of ideas," Foster described the purpose of the new project, which includes some of his most famous works like the glass dome of the German parliament and the London skyscraper nicknamed the Gherkin.
In the four-story building from 1912, around 400 models of Foster's works, about 1,200 sketches, 8,000 drawings and plans, and 56,000 photographs will be on display in Madrid. The lecture halls will be located on the ground floor.
In the garden of the center, the Pritzker Prize winner Foster had a pavilion built, which, like many of his buildings, is glass-walled. He named it Inspiration and displayed items and works that inspired him in life. Among the exhibits are models of ships, bicycles, and airplanes, as well as a restored car from Avions Voisin, which previously belonged to the famous architect Le Corbusier.
Foster chose Madrid for his center also because his wife, art gallery owner and curator Elena Ochoa, is from Spain. In Spain, Foster has already designed several buildings, including the Torre de Collserola transmitter and viewing tower in Barcelona (1991), the Congress Palace in Valencia, and metro stations in Bilbao. Last year, Foster won the competition for the expansion of the famous Prado Museum in Madrid.
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The main goal of Foster's center in Madrid will not be to showcase his majestic works, but to educate new generations. It will primarily host seminars and courses for young architects and designers. "I would like the center to be a laboratory of ideas," Foster described the purpose of the new project, which includes some of his most famous works like the glass dome of the German parliament and the London skyscraper nicknamed the Gherkin.
In the four-story building from 1912, around 400 models of Foster's works, about 1,200 sketches, 8,000 drawings and plans, and 56,000 photographs will be on display in Madrid. The lecture halls will be located on the ground floor.
In the garden of the center, the Pritzker Prize winner Foster had a pavilion built, which, like many of his buildings, is glass-walled. He named it Inspiration and displayed items and works that inspired him in life. Among the exhibits are models of ships, bicycles, and airplanes, as well as a restored car from Avions Voisin, which previously belonged to the famous architect Le Corbusier.
Foster chose Madrid for his center also because his wife, art gallery owner and curator Elena Ochoa, is from Spain. In Spain, Foster has already designed several buildings, including the Torre de Collserola transmitter and viewing tower in Barcelona (1991), the Congress Palace in Valencia, and metro stations in Bilbao. Last year, Foster won the competition for the expansion of the famous Prado Museum in Madrid.
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