Norman Foster

The Right Honourable
The Lord Foster of Thames Bank
OM RA HonFREng
The Right Honourable The Lord Foster of Thames Bank OM RA HonFREng
	Lord Foster in 2006
Born	Norman Robert Foster; 1 June 1935; Reddish, Stockport, England
Alma mater	University of Manchester; Yale University
Occupation	Architect
Spouses	; Wendy Cheesman (m. 1964; died 1989) ; Begum Sabiha Rumani Malik (m. 1991; div. 1995) ; Elena Fernández-Ferreiro López de Ochoa (m. 1996)
Children	5
Awards	Stirling Prize; Pritzker Architecture Prize; Minerva medal; Prince of Asturias Award; HonFREng; Mérite Européen Gold Medal; AIA Gold Medal;
Practice	Foster + Partners
Buildings	Apple Park; 30 St Mary Axe; Willis Faber and Dumas Headquarters; Wembley Stadium; HSBC Building; Reichstag building;
Projects	American Air Museum at the Imperial War Museum Duxford
Member of the House of Lords
	Lord Temporal
	Life peerage; 19 July 1999 – 6 July 2010
Website	www.normanfosterfoundation.org

Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank (born 1 June 1935), is an English architect. Closely associated with the development of high-tech architecture, Lord Foster is recognised as a key figure in British modernist architecture. His firm, Foster + Partners, first founded in 1967 as Foster Associates, is the largest in the United Kingdom, and operates internationally. He also serves as president of the Norman Foster Foundation, established to "promote interdisciplinary thinking and research to help new generations of architects, designers and urbanists anticipate the future". The foundation, which opened in June 2017, is based in Madrid and operates globally. Foster received the Pritzker Prize in 2000.