Birkin Haward
The Norman Foster Foundation Inside the Archive Series is an important resource for scholars and researchers now and in the future. Part of this is the Oral History Programme, an audiovisual history with several key individuals who collaborated with Foster across his career to record their memories and experience of their collaboration. Their recorded insights augment and deepen the Archive, making it a comprehensive, cross-media resource for future generations of scholars.
Loren Butt
In the second episode of the ‘Inside the Archives’ series Loren Butt, building services engineer conveyed his records on the projects he was involved in during his time working at Foster Associates.
Tony Hunt
In the third episode of ‘Inside the Archive’ series Tony Hunt, structural engineer, conveyed his records on the projects he was involved in during his time working with Norman Foster.
Su Rogers
In the fourth episode of the ‘Inside the Archive’ series Su Rogers recalls her first meeting with Norman Foster, a deeply influential sojourn in the United States and the formation of Team 4.
Mark Sutcliffe
In the fifth episode of our ‘Inside the Archive’ series Mark Sutcliffe discusses his first impressions of Norman Foster, the guiding principles behind celebrated projects and the benefits of learning from mistakes.
Deyan Sudjic
In the sixth episode of the ‘Inside the Archive’ Series, Deyan Sudjic, writer and director of the Design Museum in London, recollects his first encounters with Norman Foster’s practise, Foster’s breaking down of boundaries within his architectural projects and the importance of collaboration throughout Foster’s career.
Michael Hopkins
In the seventh episode of the ‘Inside the Archive’ series, architect Michael Hopkins reflects on his early partnership with Norman Foster, the design and construction of the IBM Pilot Head Office and the Willis Faber & Dumas building, and the particular approach that has defined Norman Foster’s work throughout his career.
John Yates
In the eighth episode of the ‘Inside the Archive’ series, lighting engineer John Yates speaks about his first collaboration with Norman Foster, the Wills Faber & Dumas building, before taking us behind the scenes of some of Foster’s most celebrated projects including the Sainsbury’s Centre for the Visual Arts and the SAPA factory in Tibshelf.
Laurie Abbott
In the ninth episode of the ‘Inside the Archive’ series, architect Laurie Abbott speaks about how he came to join Team 4 as a junior architect before moving to discuss the impact Creek Vean and the Factory for Reliance Controls had on the design of future housing and office buildings. Abbott briefly provides insight into the influence cars and mobility have had on both his and Norman’s career before speaking about the lessons he learned while at Team 4.
John Young
In the tenth episode of the ‘Inside the Archive’ series, architect John Young speaks about his start at TEAM 4 while still a student, the two projects he took part in while at TEAM 4, the various historical predecessors for the firm’s work and the lessons he learned there that shaped his approach to architecture later on.