Foster + Partners’ Post

Congratulations to Lord Foster who was awarded an honorary doctorate yesterday by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. "70 years ago I found the path that would allow me to study at university: it was a tortuous journey that lasted five years since I left school at sixteen and I was the first in my family, in fact in my neighborhood, to enter university […] Manchester and Yale universities changed and shaped my life from then on. As an architect and urban planner, I can relate what I have done since then – and continue to do now – to my years at those universities. This event is an opportunity to share those bonds, pay tribute and honor my debt to some of those extraordinary teachers.” Lord Foster, Founder and Executive Chairman, Foster + Partners Lord Foster was recognised for his ‘ability to imagine spaces that dignify life’ and his ‘profoundly humanist perspective on how we inhabit the world’, as the rector Amaya Mendikoetxea shared in her speech.