Wendy Ann Foster, ''née'' Cheesman, (1937 – 15 January 1989) was a British architect and co-founder of

Team 4 Team 4 was a British architectural firm, established in 1963 by architecture graduates Su Brumwell, Wendy Cheesman, Norman Foster and Richard Rogers. Friction emerged within the firm, and by June 1967, Foster and Rogers decided to dissolve the ...

and

Foster Associates Foster + Partners is a British architectural, engineering, and integrated design practice founded in 1967 as Foster Associates by Norman Foster. It is the largest architectural firm in the UK with over 1,500 employees in 13 studios worldwide. ...

Career

Team 4 was an

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firm, established in 1963 by architecture graduates

Su Rogers Susan Jane Rogers ( Brumwell; born 22 February 1939) is a British designer and educator. She was a co-founder and partner during the 1960s and 1970s in two architectural practices Team 4 and Richard + Su Rogers. From 1986 to 2011, she was a par ...

(''née'' Brumwell), Wendy Cheesman, Norman Foster and

Richard Rogers Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (23 July 1933 – 18 December 2021) was a British architect noted for his modernist and Functionalism (architecture), functionalist designs in high-tech architecture. He was a senior partner a ...

.Ian Lambot (Ed.), "Norman Foster: Buildings and Projects Volume 1 1964-1973", Watermark Publications (1991), . Chapter 1 "Team 4" by Sir Richard Rogers, pp. 14-15 The firm originally included Wendy Cheesman's sister

Georgie Wolton Georgie Wolton (née Cheesman; February 1934 – 25 August 2021) was a British architect, an original member of the architecture firm Team 4. Critic Jonathan Meades describes her as the "outstanding woman architect of the generation before Zaha ...

who, as the only qualified architect of the group, allowed the practice to function. Georgie Cheesman left after only a few months, leaving the remaining members to try to pass their professional exams while continuing to practice. The notable buildings that she worked on while at Team 4, includes the first ever house to win a RIBA award - Creek Vean House, Feock, Cornwall, England (1966), Reliance Controls factory,

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(1967), Jaffe House (also known as Skybreak House), which was

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's house,

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(1965-1966) and Wates Housing, Coulsdon,

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(1965), all in England. By June 1967, Foster and Rogers, had both decided to dissolve the firm. The Rogerses (Richard and Su) established Richard and Su Rogers Architects and the Fosters (Norman Foster and Wendy Foster, ''née'' Cheesman) established

. The notable buildings that Wendy Foster was involved in include

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, Willis Faber and Dumas building, and the HSBC Building in Hong Kong.

Private life

Wendy Cheesman was the former girlfriend of

. She went on to marry Norman Foster in 1964. Wendy Foster died of cancer in 1989, when she was still a partner/director at Foster Associates.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Foster, Wendy 1937 births 1989 deaths Deaths from cancer in England Yale School of Architecture alumni British women architects Spouses of life peers

Career

Private life

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