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Article: Richard Rogers: High-tech mind and human touch.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- March 29, 2007
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Byline: Blair Kamin
Mar. 29--London-based Richard Rogers, a leader of Britain's high-tech architects and co-designer of the Pompidou Center in Paris, which paved the way for today's wave of populist museums, is the winner of the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field's highest honor, the billionaire Chicago family that sponsors the prize announced Thursday.
The outspoken Rogers, 73, has led a storybook life, overcoming dyslexia to vault to the heights of his profession with such acclaimed modern designs as the Lloyd's of London office building of 1986, which flaunts shimmering ducts and fire escape stairs amid London's twisting medieval streets. ...