Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture
From April 8 to September 18, 2022, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will host ‘Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture’, an exhibition organized in collaboration with the Norman Foster Foundation. It will explore the relevance of the automobile in relation to the history of art and design in the last century. The exhibition will occupy the entire second […]
Iolo Rees, winner of the fifth Norman Foster Foundation Scholarship at The Bartlett School of Architecture
This year’s Norman Foster Foundation Scholarship has been awarded to Iolo Rees, who impressed the jury by his intuitive outlook on a variety of phenomenological observations from the natural world. It was noted that he was able to confidently express his views and considerations that underpinned his iterative investigations in a wide variety of documentation […]
Fall/Winter 2021 Visiting Professorship at Yale University Awarded to Caroline Bos
Since 2010, Yale School of Architecture alumnus Norman Foster and his family have been funding a visiting professorship in his name, thus enabling the Yale School of Architecture (New Haven, USA) to annually invite distinguished international architects to teach in the design studio. The 2021 Norman R. Foster Visiting Professorship at Yale University was awarded […]
The Norman Foster Foundation presents the ‘Future of Cities’ Conversations Series
In the face of crises like climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, effective and positive change in cities is an imperative condition to optimising public health, social equity and environmental sustainability for urban centres and the rest of the world. A call to action against cities that have become more spatially fragmented, less environmentally responsive […]
Re-materializing Housing – Public Debates 2021
The Norman Foster Foundation Re-Materializing Housing Public Debates, supported by the Holcim Foundation, took place on 17 November 2021. This event brought together a group of experts from a range of fields to discuss overarching topics around sustainable building practices and construction materials within the framework of housing as a fundamental human right. As Dirk […]
Norman Foster Foundation Re-materializing Housing Workshop
The Norman Foster Foundation Re-Materializing Housing Workshop will take place from 15-19 November 2021 with the support of the Holcim Foundation. As the Workshop’s Mentor, Dirk Hebel, points out, ‘mainstream building practices are unsustainable. The construction sector uses an extensive amount of material resources and is responsible for the use of material compounds that are […]
Norman Foster in a dialogue with John Kerry at the Climate Breakfast with Mayors
In cooperation with the US Department of State, the city of Glasgow, the Norman Foster Foundation, the Glasgow Urban Lab and the network of cities C40, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) organised a high-level dialogue on 3 November at the City Chambers in Glasgow, United Kingdom. The dialogue brought mayors present at […]
The Norman Foster Foundation is now a member of ICAM
The Norman Foster Foundation is now a member of the International Confederation of Architectural Museums, the main international organization dedicated to fostering links between all those interested in promoting a better understanding of architecture. ICAM was founded in 1979 in response to the emergence of architectural museums as distinctive institutions. With more of fifty years […]
Climate Breakfast with Mayors: A dialogue with Norman Foster and John Kerry
In cooperation with the US Department of State, the city of Glasgow, the Norman Foster Foundation, the Glasgow Urban Lab and the network of cities C40, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has organised a high-level dialogue to take place on 3 November at 7.30 a.m. (GTM) at the City Chambers in Glasgow, […]
Norman Foster. Sketchbooks Volume I 1975 – 1980
The Norman Foster Foundation announces the publication of the first volume of the Norman Foster Sketchbooks series. Edited by Jorge Sainz, the publication aims to offer a broad selection of the content of Norman Foster’s sketchbooks, held in the Foundation’s Archive. This new publication appears after the release in 2020 of Norman Foster Sketchbooks 1975-2020, […]