Norman Foster

Norman Foster, born 1935 in Manchester, received his training at Manchester University's School of Architecture and City Planning, and at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Beginning in 1963 Foster worked in partnership with Richard and Su Rogers and his wife, Wendy Foster, in a firm called Team 4. In 1967 he established his own firm called Foster Associates (later Foster + Partners).

Foster's earliest works explored the idea of a technologically advanced shed, meaning a structure surrounded by a lightweight shell or envelope.