Norman Foster Wins Andree Putman Lifetime Achievement Award 2025
- November 8, 2024
- By: Ar. Priyanshi Shah
- NEWS
Building Material Reporter brings the latest news - The legendary Architect Norman Foster from Foster + Partners will be accepting the Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award 2025 for his revolutionary design in the urban landscape, commitment to sustainability and innovation and environmental design. The event will be held in Paris on 18th January as part of the Createurs Design Awards. With a diverse portfolio, Fosters + Partners has reimagined the role of architecture with a vision of sustainability in a technical future. He proudly joined the celebrated list of other past Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award winners Pesce, Iris Apfel, Tadao Ando, and Robert A.M. Stern.
Foster expressed: "It is a great honour to be receiving the Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award and to be sharing with such an esteemed company including my colleague Bob Stern. Design is a collective endeavor, and recognition is of course shared with the many talented people that I have had the privilege of working with throughout my career. On their behalf, I express my thanks and gratitude. I also congratulate the programme of the Créateurs Design Award for its encouragement of creativity in all of the arts."
Education
Norman Foster considered himself a shy and reserved child who became an assistant to the local architect. In 1956, he graduated from the University of Manchester and his hard work was recognised in 1959 when he won the RIBA Silver Medal for a Windmill Measured Drawings. He won a Henry Fellowship to the Yale School of Architecture and met his future business partner Richard Rogers.
Foundation of Fosters + Partners
Norman Foster, a Pritzker Award winner in 1999 is an English architect who defined the high-tech architectural style and was globally recognized for his wonderful work. He dined in British modernist architecture and founded his practice Fosters + Partners in the United Kingdom. Being the principal architect, he promotes interdisciplinary thinking and research to help future generations of architects, designers and urbanists create sustainable and green built forms.
The firm believes that good, responsible design is only possible with significant contributions from different disciplines. They approach the design and deliver projects from the earliest sketch through to strategic design, construction drawings and completion working closely with specialist design teams throughout the process to deliver an integrated vision. These teams include structural and environmental engineering, sustainability, urban and landscape design, industrial design, and workplace and interior design together with our own technology and research teams.
Architecture & Design
Foster has established an international reputation with projects as diverse as the New German Parliament in the Reichstag in Berlin, Chek Lap Kok International Airport and the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong, Commerzbank Headquarters in Frankfurt, Willis Faber & Dumas Head Office in Ipswich, and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich. Since its inception, the practice has received more than 400 awards and citations for excellence and has won numerous international and national competitions.
Foster is globally known for his diverse projects such as the New German Parliament in the Reichstag in Berlin, Chek Lap Kok International Airport and the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong, Commerzbank Headquarters in Frankfurt, Willis Faber & Dumas Head Office in Ipswich, and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich. Till today, the practice has won more than 400 awards and national and international awards.
“From the very beginning, our practice was founded on a philosophy of innovation, sustainability and design. We continue to learn from the past and creatively embrace the challenges of the future, with a firm belief that good design makes a difference.”- Norman Foster, Founder and Executive Chairman
Past Achievements & Awards
21st Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate in 1999
American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for Architecture (1994)
Royal Gold Medal for Architecture (1983)
Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture (1991)
Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours(1990)
Life Peerage - The Lord Foster of Thames Bank(1999)
