Editor’s Letter – January 2022 | Information | Architonic

You’re a long time dead.

This wry pearl was a favourite of my Irish grandfather’s. Meaning, make hay while the sun shines. Carpe that diem. 

Richard Rogers certainly did. When the British architectural grandee – one of the chief actors on the stage of high-tech architecture – passed away a few weeks ago at the age of 88 (fitting, indeed for a grandee), it was noted by many that his final project was completed less than a year earlier. Practice was his lifeblood. 2021, with all its vicissitudes, saw a number of legacy-leaving greats enter that hallowed architectural pantheon, among them Chris Wilkinson of WilkinsonEyre,



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