The Norman Foster Foundation promotes interdisciplinary thinking and research to help new generations of architects, designers and urbanists anticipate the future. The Foundation believes in the importance of connecting architecture, design, technology and the arts to better serve society, and in the value of a holistic education that encourages experimentation through research and projects. The Norman Foster Foundation holds the Norman Foster Archive and Library, which provide a window into the larger narrative and history of our built environment through the work of Norman Foster.
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Institutional Member
Norman Foster Foundation
Collection
The archive located in the Foundation’s Madrid headquarters was established in 2015, and its work is ongoing. The NFF Archive is responsible for the cataloguing, conservation, and dissemination of the architectural records which forms the institutional heart of the foundation. Chronologically, the archive’s holdings span over seven decades, from 1948 to the present. Collection’s central materials relate to work from Norman Foster’s, advancing from his student years at the universities of Manchester and Yale; to the realised and unbuilt projects of the practices he established (Team 4, Foster Associates, Sir Norman Foster and Partners and Foster + Partners); work from the Norman Foster Foundation; and utopian proposals created over many years with prominent collaborators such as Buckminster Fuller and Otl Aicher and leading artists such as Richard Long and Christo and Jeanne-Claude.Other Members:
