Su Rogers

Marcus and Irene Brumwell

Susan Jane Rogers, known as Su Rogers (née Brumwell, born 22 February 1939) is a British architect and educator. She was a co-founder and partner in Team 4, and a partner in Colquhoun, Miller and Partners, which became John Miller and Partners in 1990. Rogers is perhaps best known for her work on the Pompidou Centre in the 1970's, and the concept Zip-Up House in the 1960's. She was also the architect in two commissions from her parents, namely Creek Vean (while partner at Team 4) and Pillwood House (while partner at Colquhoun, Miller and Partners), which are now both grade II* listed buildings.

Rogers was born Susan Jane (Su) Brumwell on 22 February 1939 to (John Robert) Marcus Brumwell CBE and Irene Brumwell. Her father, Marcus Brumwell (1901-1983), was the managing director of Stuart Advertising Agency and later founded the Design Research Unit. She attended Frensham Heights School, she later studied for a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology at the London School of Economics and then Town Planning at Yale School of Architecture (1961-63). At Yale she met Richard Rogers, with whom she later married in 1960, along with Norman Foster. Later Rogers became a design tutor at the Architectural Association and at the Royal College of Art in the 1970s.

Rogers and Brumwell had three sons together, Ab Rogers, who is a architect and designer and is the head of interior design at the Royal College of Art, Ben Rogers, who is the Director for Centre For London, and Zad Rogers, who is a founding director of Atomized Studios Ltd, a production company that creates video content. The couple divorced in the early 1970s

She married her second husband, John Miller, an architect, in 1985. She has one step-daughter, Sarah Miller, who established Sarah Miller and Partners in September 2012 and is also Luxury Brand Ambassador for The Wall Street Journal Europe.