Philosophy of stansted airport

Philosophy
Sir Norman Foster
was born in 1935 in
 Manchester, United

Kingdom.
He entered the Manchester University School of Architecture at age 21 and later studied at Yale.
After working with Team 4, he founded Foster Associates in 1967. Foster was knighted by the queen in 1990 and renamed his practice Sir Norman Foster and Partners.
His wife, Sabiha, is a director of the London firm, which now numbers more than 200 architects and 500 employees with offices in Europe and Asia.

Foster flies Foster fliesFoster flies  his own small jet on shorter business trips. His love of flying is certainly one of the inspirations for
the ideas incorporated into the Stansted terminal building. Other constants of Foster’s work also surface here:
emphasis on the social dimension of design, a preoccupation with natural light, high quality of components and details, and a relationship between ecology, energy, technology, and their links with poetic meaning .

Chronologically, among the works of Sir Norman Foster, Stansted can be listed after designs for Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank (1979–1984)  and Renault Distribution Center (1980–1982) were being executed, parallel with Century Tower (1987–1991), and before Carre d’Art (1984–1993) and Stockley Office Park
(1987–1989). His reputation for bringing in large build- ings on time and within budget was clearly established and matched the priorities of BAA.
The 1978 Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts  must have sparked BAA’s vision of what sort of terminal building Foster would deliver.