Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano with Alan Rusbridger

A talk organized by the Royal Academy of Arts

The 4 October 2013 at the Royal Academy of Art in London a talk took place with Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano in occasion of the exhibition Richard Rogers RA: Inside Out. They achieved international prominence in the late 1970s with their revolutionary Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

Rogers and Piano reminisced with Guardian editor, Alan Rusbridger, about their famous collaboration and reflected on the possibilities – technical, social and cultural – of architecture then and now.

The talk started by telling the story and the behind-the-scenes activities of one of the iconic buildings of high-tech architecture. A predictable question to Piano was about the huge debate around the his latest project Shard / London Bridge, where intentionally or not, Baron Rogers momentarily left the room.

Watch the whole conference (*from min 23.30)