Marco Goldschmied
Marco Lorenzo Sinnott Goldschmied (28 March 1944 – 7 July 2022) was a British architect best known for co-founding the Richard Rogers Partnership and serving as its managing director. He later helped run the Marco Goldschmied Foundation and was president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). In 1998, he and Doreen Lawrence founded the Stephen Lawrence Prize with the RIBA to reward small-budget architecture projects.
Goldschmied trained at the Architectural Association, where he met future colleagues Mike Davies and John Young. In 1971 he became an associate partner of Piano + Rogers, the team behind the Centre Pompidou. He and Richard Rogers, Davies and Young started the Richard Rogers Partnership in 1977; Goldschmied became managing director in 1984 and worked on many major projects. He left the firm in 2004, and it later became Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners in 2007.
He started the Marco Goldschmied Foundation, which established the Stephen Lawrence Prize in 1998 to reward architecture projects with budgets under £1 million. He served as president of RIBA from 1999 to 2001 and led efforts to rebrand the institute.
Goldschmied was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, to Elinor Sinnott and Guido Goldschmied. He moved with his family to Trieste, Italy, in 1946, returned to London in 1956, and later studied at the Architectural Association. He married Andrea Halvorsen in 1969, and they had five children.
He died at home on 7 July 2022, aged 78, after a year-long battle with lung cancer. He was survived by his five children and many grandchildren.
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