Our critics' pick of the must-see art exhibitions in town this season
Richard Rogers confesses to not being ‘a natural looker back’. For the designer of space-age buildings like the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Lloyd’s of London and the soon-to-be-finished Leadenhall Building (‘Cheesegrater’) in the City it probably goes with the territory. But as the Royal Academy stages the survey exhibition ‘Inside Out’ (a reference to Rogers’s buildings, many of which wear their ducts, lifts, staircases and waterpipes proudly on their façades) the architect finds himself taking stock of a six-decade career that has seen him scoop major awards including the Stirling Prize and Riba Gold Medal, becoming Baron Rogers of Riverside in the process. Here, he talks about the London architecture that inspires him and picks his favourites among his own designs.
