福斯特悼念罗杰斯：“我该如何讲述我亲爱的故友的生活和工作？”

当地时间2021年12月18日，英国建筑师理查德·罗杰斯（Richard Rogers）于伦敦去世，享年88岁。罗杰斯曾经的同学、同事，以及一生的好友诺曼·福斯特发布了一篇悼文，表达了深切的怀念。以下是悼文全文。

我失去了最亲密、相交最久的朋友理查德·罗杰斯，深感悲痛。60年前相遇时，我们还是耶鲁大学的学生；一直以来，理查德与我志趣相投。

I am so deeply saddened by the loss of my oldest and closest friend, Richard Rogers. Over the time since we met, almost exactly 60 years ago as students at Yale University, Richard has been a kindred spirit.

我们在耶鲁的硕士项目上首次合作；而每到假期时间，我们就结伴到美国各地旅行，从过去和现代大师的作品中汲取灵感。我们在建筑领域的所有问题上都十分融洽，这使我们建立了一套私人共享的语言，包容批评与欣赏。

In a first of its kind, we collaborated on projects in the Yale Masters Class and, in every break, we travelled together across the United States to be inspired by the works of past and modern masters. Our rapport on everything architectural amounted to a privately shared language that could encompass criticism and appreciation.

我们继续着独特的友谊和合作，并将其带入了与两位建筑师姐妹*组成的Team 4建筑实践中，直至1967年各自成立事务所。兜兜转转又一圈，我们比以往任何时候都更亲密。这篇悼文关乎生命而非离别，因为理查德的遗产将会长存；那么，我该如何讲述我亲爱的故友的生活和工作？我应从这个人开始，然后转到建筑，还是反之？任何一种方式都是可行的，因为二者相互成就。

With the briefest of breaks, we continued our unique blend of friendship and collaboration into private practice with two architect sisters as Team 4, before eventually going our own ways as separate practices in 1967. Since then, we have come full circle to be closer than ever as families. If a tribute is about a life and not a departure, because Richard’s legacy will live on, then how do I start to define the life and work of my dear departed friend. Do I start with the person and move onto the architecture or vice versa? Either way will work because the one is a manifestation of the other.

理查德喜欢交际，外向、慷慨，对生活充满了极具感染力的热情。他的建筑是其个性在社会中的一面镜子——开放、热情，就像他的衣橱一样，多彩而优雅。

Richard was gregarious, outgoing, generous and possessed an infectious zest for life. His buildings are a social mirror of that personality --- open, welcoming and, like his wardrobe, elegantly colourful.

“罗杰斯”式的建筑，特点在于体现并颂扬结构的作用。当提到他的建筑时，我想到了技术，但它始终是一种实现社会议程的手段。鉴于理查德对建筑的社区精神的热情，这也许并不令人惊讶：他热爱城市，并作为一名坚定的城市规划专家拥护城市事业。

The Rogers signature is an architecture that makes manifest and celebrates the role of the structure. Technology comes to mind in my reference to his architecture, but it is always as a means to the social agenda. Given Richard’s passion for the community spirit of a building, it is perhaps no surprise that he was a lover of cities and championed their cause as a committed urbanist.

无论是作为市长和政府的顾问，还是作为该主题的作家，他都不懈地支持紧凑、可持续发展、适合步行的城市，并强烈反对盲目的郊区扩张。当我们二十多岁聚在一起的时候，这些信念就深深扎根在我们的私人语言中；直到最后，他的肚皮里也有同样的火焰（他会喜欢这样的表达）。在爱的主题上，理查德作为建筑师的生活与他的家庭密不可分。任何对他的致敬，都同样献给他的妻子露丝和他们充满爱心的家庭。

Whether as an advisor to mayors and government, or as a writer on the subject, he was a tireless supporter of the compact, sustainable, pedestrian-friendly city and a passionate opponent of mindless suburban sprawl. These convictions were embedded in our private language when we came together in our twenties and there was the same fire in his belly (an expression he would love) up to the very end. On the subject of love, Richard’s life as an architect is inseparable from that of his family and any tribute to him is one to his wife Ruthie and their devotedly caring family.

理查德·罗杰斯是现代伟大的先驱建筑师，极具社会责任感，以其影响力向人们展示城市生活中最好的一面，留下了珍贵的遗产。我将深深地思念你

Richard Rogers was a great pioneering architect of the modern age, socially committed and an influential protagonist for the best of city life --- such a legacy. I will miss you dearly

*译者注：此处“姐妹”并非指血缘关系的姐妹，而是指Wendy Cheesman、Su Rogers。

参考资料：

https://www.fosterandpartners.com/news/archive/2021/12/norman-foster-a-tribute-to-richard-rogers/

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