Four key projects by high-tech architecture practice Team 4
As Team 4, Su Brumwell, Richard Rogers, Wendy Cheesman and Norman Foster began to develop high-tech architecture. Continuing our series on the style we look at four key projects.
Yale School of Architecture graduates Rogers, Brumwell, Foster and Cheesman ? along with Cheesman's sister Georgie Wolton, who was the only qualified architect in the group but left after several months ? established Team 4 in 1963.
The studio would only complete a handful of projects before splitting in 1967, with married couple Rogers and Brumwell setting up Richard + Su Rogers Architects, and Foster and Cheesman, who by then were also married, establishing Foster Associates.
High-tech architecture is a style that emerged in the 1960s, which emphasises and celebrates structural and circulation elements. Read more about the movement in our high-tech series. Here are four major projects Team 4 completed:
Creek Vean, 1966, Feock, Cornwall
Built for Brumwell's parents, Team 4 designed Creek Vean to be fully embedded in its cliff-side location overlooking a creek on the southern coast of Cornwall.
"The building attempts to fit more snugly into its waterfront surroundings by generating a garden on the roof," said Foster. "As this starts to become overgrown, the house will recede into its creek-side Cornish setting."
Built from honey-coloured concrete blocks, visually the house is broken into two by a flight of steps that leads from the waterside across a bridge to the drive way...
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