Pompidou Centre, Paris

21 November 2007 to 3 March 2008

Occupying 1,150 sqm of gallery space, this bilingual (French-English) retrospective presents a detailed overview of 45 years of work by Richard Rogers and his various collaborators.

The exhibition's design is inspired by the 'human' piazza environment, which is central to Richard Rogers and the Pompidou. It should encourage debate, discussion, and open mindedness, where people are happy to spend time absorbing and discovering the city, and its inner relations with architecture. A place where people can be contaminated by the architecture, the designs and the exhibits which surround them. It should demonstrate how this pioneering thinker and practice believes buildings and the city can work together.

The exhibition draws inspiration from the city itself, where a collection of individual buildings create complex experiences, where multitudes of textures, pathways, observations and scales from micro to macro come together to create a city. The collection of new and archive architectural models, photography, drawings, films and digital animations form a navigational system which takes the visitor through the projects. Referencing the layouts of cities, both old and new, runways which are sometimes rambling, sometimes wide, always experiential, the space is always easy to navigate. Never getting lost or congested in traffic jams. This exhibition changes and ages with different venues and people, and the way that it ages with people is it's real success.

The exhibition is currently shown at the Design Museum, London, from 24 April to 25 August 2008, and will then be presented in Barcelona and Madrid, Spain in 2009.

Ab Rogers Design in collaboration with The Richard Greenwood partnership, Praline, Dominic Robson (BLINK!.), DA.studio, Giuseppe Bartolini, Hijack and Marina Willer.