Norman Foster. Networks

Norman Foster. Networks offers a rare first-person insight into the ideas, influences, and connections that have shaped one of the world's greatest architects. Penned and curated by Foster himself, it brings together eight immersive essays in which he explores architecture not as a professional pursuit, but a nexus of passions, disciplines, and lived experience.

In Roots, Foster examines his modest start in Manchester alongside his lifelong fascination with aviation, tracing the formative threads that underpin his work. Flight emerges as both obsession and metaphor, informing his pursuit of lightness, efficiency, and technical elegance. His deep attachment to the Alpine landscape-where he lives in a self-designed home of the future-reveals how place, climate, and topography continue to shape his thinking.