At Yale he met fellow student Norman Foster & on giving to Engl& he install architectural practice when Team Four sustaining Stephen foster and their various married woman Su Rogers and Wendy Cheesman. It quickly earned the reputation for 'high-hi-tech' industrial project.

Around 1967 the practice split up, & Rogers joined Renzo Piano winning the project for the Pompidou Centre in 1971. This building constituted Rogers' characteristic style where virtually all of the building services (water system, heating ducts, & step) were involved on the exterior to leave unlittered internal spaces. Now a building occurs as extremely admired Paris landmark, however at a period crtitics were further mixed dubbing a up to date within-wrong-side-out style Bowellism.

His best known works include Centre Pompidou Paris (1972-78) Lloyd's building London (1979-84) European Court of Human Rights Strasbourg (1984) Millennium Dome London (1999) A controversial recently building for the National Assembly for Wales Cardiff (unfinished)

Rogers was one of a virtually all vocal advocates of the Millennium Dome task & his reputation has suffered following. Though however regarded when one of a major international practices these are notable that since a Dome he has secured fewer landmark projects.

Fallowing many years of development a challenging Rogers Masterplan for the regeneration of Newcastle-upon-Tyne was rejected. Rogers has move politically as a Labour life peer and in 2000 wrote the UK governments 'Urban Renaissance' white paper. Rogers is todays chair of the Greater London Authority panel for Architecture and Urbanism.

Rogers' 2nd married woman is Ruth Rogers, co-owner of the River Cafe and author of the series of popular Cookery books on Italian food .