1965  establishes Team 4 with Norman Foster
1969  partnership with Renzo Piano
1971-77 builts Centre Pompidou with Renzo Piano
1977  founds Richard Rogers Partnership
1991  be knighted
2000   receives arts prize Praemium Imperiale
         awarded by the imperial family of Japan
2007  receives Pritzker Architecture Price
2008  appointed to the Order of the Companions
         of Honour