Richard and Su Rogers’ innovative Wimbledon House given to National Trust

The modernist Wimbledon House, designed in 1968 by Richard and Su Rogers, has been given to the National Trust by the Rogers family, securing the influential 20th-century residence for long-term conservation and public access. 

The home was gifted to the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2015, and restored by architect Philip Gumuchdjian and landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan. 

Located at 22 Parkside in southwest London, the house was designed for Richard Rogers’ parents and became an early testing ground for ideas that would later inform projects including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Lloyd’s Building in London. 

Comprising two single-story structures, the house uses a prefabricated construction system characterized externally by glass and yellow-painted steel.

Conceived as...