Today, Foster+Partners has 20 offices in 12 countries, and directly employs more than 2,500 people worldwide. Foster has won numerous awards, was awarded a Life Peerage Award in 1990 (he resigned from the House of Lords in 2010 as he moved his primary residence to Switzerland), and even earned a pilot’s license. Overall, design remains both a passion and a calling.
“Design really has a social agenda,” he explains. “It exists to improve the quality of our lives both materially and spiritually. It’s about concepts of beauty, about convenience, about working sustainably with nature to create resilient communities.”
Foster’s designs continue to shape how people live, work and play around the world. He has attempted to heal Germany’s divided past through Reichstag Buildingg in Berlin, and broke engineering feats through the Millennium Bridge in London, ushering in a new era for the South Bank. their dynamic new entrance Venice Use high-performance, lightweight materials to build new transportation infrastructure for the floating city. It takes all this—and Is-Very high technology, yet the lessons of history guide them vision for the future,
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“We question, we challenge, and wherever possible, we innovate. We try to make change for good, but we are always aware of the historical dimension,” he explains. “And that is that cities in crisis always come back stronger. Whether it’s the Lisbon earthquake and the birth of seismic structures, cholera in New York that paved the way for modern sanitation, or the Great Fire of London that left the city’s rooftops burning – and I can give you more examples – the biggest lesson is that cities come back stronger.”
