Architect, England Together with architects Richard Rogers, Nicholas Grimshaw, and Michael Hopkins, Norman Foster is credited with pioneering the design style known as High-Tech in Britain in the early 1970s. Although in the United States the term refers principally to an architectural style, in Britain High-Tech points to a more rigorous approach in which advanced technology is acknowledged as representing the “spirit of the age.” The aesthetics of industrial production and machine technology are celebrated and embodied Entries A–F 883 in the methodology of design production. Industry is a source for both technology and imagery. After working in the city treasurer’s office in Manchester Town Hall and serving for two years in the Royal Air Force, Foster studied at the University of Manchester (1956–61) and at Yale University (1961–62). In 1963, he formed Team 4 in London, collaborating with his wife, Wendy, and Su and Richard Rogers, whom he had met at Yale. An early commission was for...