Su Rogers

Rogers was born Susan Jane (Su) Brumwell on 22 February 1939 to (John Robert) Marcus Brumwell CBE and Irene Brumwell. Her father, Marcus Brumwell (1901-1983), was the managing director of Stuart Advertising Agency and later founded the Design Research Unit. She attended Frensham Heights School, she later studied for a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology at the London School of Economics and then Town Planning at Yale School of Architecture (1961-63). At Yale she met Richard Rogers, with whom she later married in 1960, along with Norman Foster. Later Rogers became a design tutor at the Architectural Association and at the Royal College of Art in the 1970s.

Rogers and Brumwell had three sons together, Ab Rogers, who is a architect and designer and is the head of interior design at the Royal College of Art, Ben Rogers, who is the Director for Centre For London, and Zad Rogers, who is a founding director of Atomized Studios Ltd, a production company that creates video content. The couple divorced in the early 1970s

She married her second husband, John Miller, an architect, in 1985. She has one step-daughter, Sarah Miller, who established Sarah Miller and Partners in September 2012 and is also Luxury Brand Ambassador for The Wall Street Journal Europe.

Creek Vean, Pill Lane, Feock, Cornwall

In 1963, Rogers co-founded Team 4 along with Richard Rogers, whom she was married to, Norman Foster, and Wendy Cheesman, who later married Foster. Friction emerged within the firm, and by June 1967, Fosters and Rogers', decided to dissolve the partnership. One of the first projects for Team 4 was a commission from Brumwell’s parents, Marcus and Irene, to build a new house in Feock, Cornwall, called Creek Vean. They sold a Piet Mondrian painting bought from the artist in the 1930s, to fund the new house. Creek Vean is a listed building, having been listed Grade II in 1998, and subsequently upgraded to Grade II*.

The practice also designed a planning scheme of 120 houses for Water Homes, at Coulsdon, Surrey. Richard Rogers claims that it was "probably the most important project of our Team 4 period". The practice also designed Skybreak House in Radlett, Hertfordshire, built between 1965 and 1966. The interior of the house was used in the film A Clockwork Orange. The final project for Team 4 was the Reliance Controls building in Swindon, which was completed in 1967.

22 Parkside, Wimbledon, London

After Team 4 had dissolved, she and her husband at the time established Richard and Su Rogers Architects from 1967 until 1970. The partnership designed Richard Rogers' parents Dr. William Nino and Dada Rogers at 22 Parkside, Wimbledon, London. Earlier they had designed the concept house Zip-Up House. The house was never built, although the concept was later used for 22 Parkside.

Pompidou Centre in Paris

In 1971 Su and Richard Rogers joined forces with Italian architect Renzo Piano in a new partnership, Piano + Rogers. The partnership designed Pompidou Centre. The partnership ended in 1977, although Su Rogers had left the practice earlier in 1972 to become Unit Master at the Architectural Association until 1976 and as a tutor at the Royal College of Art from 1975 until 1985. In 1977 until 1986, she was Director of the Royal College of Art Project Office. In 1986 she became a partner in Colquhoun, Miller and Partners, which became John Miller and Partners in 1990. She remained a partner/director until 5 July 2011.

Rogers has been a visiting tutor at the following universities:

• Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
• Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University
• Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, New York, USA
• University College Dublin, Ireland
• University of Toronto, Canada
• School of Interior Design, Kingston Polytechnic
• School of Art, Design and Architecture, Plymouth Polytechnic
• Liverpool John Moores University