Susan Jane Rogers is a British designer and educator.
15 Facts About Su Rogers
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Su Rogers was a co-founder and partner during the 1960s and 1970s in two architectural practices Team 4 and Richard + Su Rogers.
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Su Rogers was a member of the team that won the design competition for the Pompidou Centre in the 1970s, and she co-designed the concept Zip-Up House in the 1960s.
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Su Rogers was responsible for two notable commissions from her parents: Creek Vean and Pillwood House, which are both Grade II* listed buildings.
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Su Rogers was born in 1939 to Marcus Brumwell and Irene Brumwell.
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Su Rogers's father was the managing director of Stuart Advertising Agency and later founded the Design Research Unit.
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Su Rogers attended Frensham Heights School, and later studied for a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology at the London School of Economics and then Town Planning at Yale School of Architecture.
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Su Rogers met Richard Rogers, an architect, at the LSE, and they married in 1960.
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Su Rogers married her second husband, John Miller, an architect, in 1985 and joined his firm the following year.
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Su Rogers was Professor of Environmental Design at the Royal College of Art.
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Su Rogers has two step-daughters, Sarah Miller, a former editor of Conde Naste Traveller, and Harriet Miller, a painter and tutor at the Royal Drawing School.
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In 1963, Su Rogers co-founded Team 4 along with her then-husband Richard Su Rogers, Norman Foster, and Wendy Cheesman, who later married Foster.
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Richard Su Rogers claimed that it was "probably the most important project of our Team 4 period".
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In 1971 Su and Richard Su Rogers joined forces with Italian architect Renzo Piano in a new partnership, Piano + Su Rogers.
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The partnership ended in 1977, although Su Rogers had left the practice earlier in 1972 to become Unit Master at the Architectural Association and as a tutor at the Royal College of Art.