The Centre Pompidou celebrates the global work of this builder, researcher and urban planner in a masterful exhibition. At almost 88 years old, Norman Foster - or rather Lord Foster after being knighted a peer of the kingdom by the Queen in 1999 - is the story of the perfect success of a young Englishman.
Starting from nothing - he left school at 16 and does odd jobs to finance his studies, after a military service in the Royal Air Force where his passion for aeronautics matured - the Yale graduate, a scholarship in his pocket for the United States.