鲁珀特·加德纳生于英格兰东南部的肯特郡。他在坎特伯雷建筑学院以及伦敦的皇家艺术学院接受过教育。诺曼·福斯特和詹姆斯·斯特林曾是他的导师。尔后,他在巴塞罗纳的里卡多·博菲利建筑设计室工作。1976年,他定居瑞典,并于1985年成立了鲁珀特·加德纳设计工作室。 皇家艺术学院各系每年只招收八名学生,这是一所独一无二的学校。加德纳在该校的学习影响了他对建筑的态度和作为建筑师的职责。“学院很重视建筑学,学习任务很重,而且要求非常严格。要使自己被人理解并坚持自己的理想,就需要辩论和勇气。我在这里学到了一种思维方法,它给予我意志,使我能坚持自己追求的建筑”。 目前,加德纳的工作室聘用了27位建筑师和室内设计师,主要从事办公室、商场、餐馆以及私人住宅的室内设计。鲁珀特·加德纳比较喜欢每个细节都需要设计的项目,而且,项目的各部分都由电脑成像。关于用电脑设计的优势和不足问题,加德纳如是说:”电脑绘图更加精确,但需要时间,而且只有在大型项目中,才能通过电脑赢得时间并发挥它的潜力。在大型的“概念项目”中,以特利亚商场为例,电脑设计的效率就非常高,因为所有详细资料和 Rupert Gardner was born in Kent, South East England. He was educated at the School of Architecture in Canterbury and the Royal College of Art in London. Norman Foster and James Sterling were his mentors. Later, he worked in the Ricardo Bofilli architectural design office in Barcelona. In 1976, he settled in Sweden and founded the Rupert Gardner Design Studio in 1985. Each department of the Royal Academy of Arts only recruits eight students each year. This is a unique school. Gardner’s studies at the school influenced his attitude toward architecture and his role as an architect. “The college attaches great importance to architecture, it has a heavy learning task, and it is very strict. To make yourself understood and to adhere to your ideals requires debate and courage. I learned a way of thinking here and it gives me will. So that I can insist on the architecture I am pursuing.“ At present, Gardner’s studio employs 27 architects and interior designers and is mainly engaged in the interior design of offices, shopping malls, restaurants and private houses. Rupert Gardner prefers projects where every detail needs to be designed, and all parts of the project are computerized. With regard to the advantages and disadvantages of computer design, Gardner said: ”Computer graphics are more accurate, but it takes time, and only in large projects can we gain time and realize its potential through computers. In large-scale "concept projects In the case of Etelia, for example, the efficiency of computer design is very high because of all the details and