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[[Image:Norman Foster.jpg|thumb|Norman Foster]]
 
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'''Norman Foster''' (b. [[Manchester]], England, 1935) English [[architect]]. He was knighted in 1990 and received the Mies van der Rohe award, and received the Gold Medal of the AIA in 1994. He was appointed officer of the order of the Arts and Letters by the ministry of culture in [[France]], in 1994. On 12 June 1999 he has been honored with a life peerage, taking the title of Lord Foster of Thames Bank. He was awarded the prestigious 21st. Pritzker architecture prize laureate also in 1999; considered this prize the Nobel prize of [[architecture]]. In 2009, the "Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes" award.
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'''Norman Foster''' (b. [[Manchester]], England, 1935 - ) English [[architect]]. After graduating from Manchester University School of Architecture and City Planning in 1961 he won a Henry Fellowship to Yale University, where he gained a Master’s Degree in Architecture. [http://www.fosterandpartners.com/Team/SeniorPartners/11/Default.aspx] Foster was knighted in 1990 and received the Mies van der Rohe award, and in 1994 received the Gold Medal of the AIA. He was appointed officer of the order of the Arts and Letters by the ministry of culture in [[France]], in 1994. On 12 June 1999 he has been honored with a life peerage, taking the title of Lord Foster of Thames Bank. He was awarded the prestigious 21st. [[Pritzker Architecture Prize]] laureate also in 1999; considered this prize the Nobel prize of [[architecture]]. In 2009, the "Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes" award.
     

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