The Norman Foster Foundation
The Norman Foster Foundation promotes interdisciplinary thinking and research to help new generations of architects, designers and urbanists to anticipate the future.
The Norman Foster Foundation is based in Madrid and has the following objectives:
To promote the importance of architecture, infrastructure and urbanism to serve society 01
- Through teams tasked with experimental and research projects. Some of these would be of a humanitarian nature and outside the sphere of conventional architectural practice. Instances would be migrant settlements, Favelas or responses to disasters. Others could be planning strategies on infrastructure and zoning for governments and city authorities.
- Through temporary exhibitions of selected projects in the Foundation or other venues.
- Through the archive of the Foundation and access to the works of Norman Foster and the practices that he has founded or co-founded.
To promote interdisciplinary thinking to help new generations of architects, designers and artists to anticipate the future 02
- Through an educational programme of think tanks, symposia, films and publications.
- Through networks with selected universities and research institutions.
To promote the links between architecture, engineering design and art 03
- Through the display within the archive of significant works of art and design.
- Through exhibitions promoting these links in selected museums in major cities.
- Through teams tasked with experimental and research projects. Some of these would be of a humanitarian nature and outside the sphere of conventional architectural practice. Instances would be migrant settlements, Favelas or responses to disasters. Others could be planning strategies on infrastructure and zoning for governments and city authorities.
- Through temporary exhibitions of selected projects in the Foundation or other venues.
- Through the archive of the Foundation and access to the works of Norman Foster and the practices that he has founded or co-founded.
- Through an educational programme of think tanks, symposia, films and publications.
- Through networks with selected universities and research institutions.
- Through the display within the archive of significant works of art and design.
- Through exhibitions promoting these links in selected museums in major cities.