Marco Goldschmied | |
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Born | (1944-03-28)28 March 1944 Harrogate, Yorkshire, England |
Died | 7 July 2022(2022-07-07) (aged 78) |
Alma mater | Architectural Association |
Occupation | Architect |
Practice | Richard Rogers Partnership |
Marco Lorenzo Sinnott GoldschmiedPPRIBA (28 March 1944 – 7 July 2022) was a British architect best known as co-founder and managing director ofRichard Rogers Partnership. He was latterly involved with running the Marco Goldschmied Foundation and was a president of theRoyal Institute of British Architects. In 1998, he founded the Stephen Lawrence Prize[1] alongsideDoreen Lawrence, in association with theRIBA.
Goldschmied trained at theArchitecture Association where he met two future partners,Mike Davies and John Young.[2]
In 1971, he was an associate partner of the Piano + Rogers architecture practice,[3] which was established to design the competition-winningCentre Georges Pompidou.
Goldschmied was co-founder of theRichard Rogers Partnership withRichard Rogers, Davies, and Young in 1977, becoming managing director in 1984, and was involved in many of the major projects undertaken by the practice. He left in 2004, and the practice becameRogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in 2007.
Goldschmied set up the Marco Goldschmied Foundation, which established theRIBAStephen Lawrence Prize in 1998 and rewards the best architecture projects with a construction budget of less than £1 million.[1]
Goldschmied was President of the RIBA from 1999 to 2001, during which time he initiated the rebranding of the institute.[4]
Son of BritishElinor Sinnott and Italian Guido Goldschmied, Goldschmied was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, on 28 March 1944, and moved toTrieste, Italy in 1946, during the Allied Military Government – Free territory of Triest. Following the death of his father in 1955, he returned to London with his mother in 1956.[5] He married Andrea Halvorsen in 1969, and they had five children together between 1971 and 1982.
Goldschmied died at home on 7 July 2022, at the age of 78. He had been living with lung cancer for over a year. He was survived by his five children and numerous grandchildren.[6][7]