Foster + Partners

Founded in 1967 as Foster Associates and now known as Foster + Partners, for over four decades the studio has grown to become one of the largest and most respected in the world. Since its inception, the practice has received more than 400 awards and citations for excellence and has won more than 70 international and national competitions. Foster + Partners has a long a history of producing landmark buildings including the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, Swiss Re in the City of London, the Millennium Bridge, the New German Parliament at the Reichstag, the Great Court at the British Museum and Beijing Airport. Thomas Manss & Company has collaborated with Foster + Partners on a number of projects ranging from identity and exhibition designs to publishing a variety of books.

The Foster + Partners website contains a wealth of information about the practice's ethos, the design teams and all the company's projects. Not surprisingly it is not only used by aspiring architects...
Foster + Partners website, architects and designers, home page quality
The Architect's Studio - Norman Foster was the third in a series of exhibitions examining the design process and working environment of contemporary architects at Copenhagen's Louisiana Museum of...
Foster + Partners Exhibition, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Copenhagen, entranc
'Exploring The City' examined the issues that shape the contemporary city, and the way in which Foster + Partners has responded to them. Through ten themes it reveals the wealth and diversity of the...
Foster + Partners Exhibition, Sainsbury Centre Norwich, Exploring the city
The German Reichstag “Museum of Spaces” is a permanent exhibition at the Reichstag, Germany’s parliamentary building, undertaken in conjunction with Foster and Partners. It tells the story of the...
Foster Berlin Reichstag Museum of Spaces Exhibition, Wallot, Baumgarten
Foster Works is a collection of six volumes featuring Norman Foster’s complete œuvre from the early Team 4 beginnings to the latest projects. The six books are being published over a period of six...
Foster Works, Prestel, Book cloth seen through acetate cover
For many years the Foster + Partners identity had been based on Otl Aichers Rotis typeface. Much like Fosters architecture, the identity had inspired many young architects who were beginning to '...
Foster + Partners identity, chrome sign on glass entrance door
For more than thirty years Ben Johnson has been documenting the work of one of today’s most acclaimed architects in photographs that have served as source material for his own neo-realist paintings...
Ben Johnson, Foster in View, Prestel, cloth cover with tipped in Paintin
On Foster, Foster On, published by Prestel, is a collection of essays by, and about architect Norman Foster. Incorporated in the cover is an interactive CD that presents colour images and drawings of...
On Foster...Foster On, Prestel, Foster writings, CD on front cover acetate
In 2007 Norman Foster celebrated 40 years of independent practice. The book features 40 of Foster's most important projects, together with 40 themes that have consistently underpinned his work....
Foster 40, Prestel, Themes and Projects, green spines and metal case