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Norman Foster was born in Manchester in 1935. After graduating from Manchester University School of Architecture and City Planning in 1961 he won a Henry Fellowship to Yale University, where he was a fellow of Jonathan Edwards College and gained a Master's Degree in Architecture. Established as Foster Associates in 1967 his practice, now known as Foster and Partners, has project offices worldwide with its main studio in London. Since its inception it has received over190 awards and citations for excellence and has won 50 national and international competitions. Norman Foster was awarded the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture in 1983, in 1990, was granted a Knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours, appointed by the Queen to the Order of Merit in 1997 and in 1999 was honoured with a Life Peerage in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, Lord Foster of Thames Bank. Since 1991, he has received the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture; the Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture; the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in New York; the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for Architecture1994; the Gold Medal Universidad Internacional 'Menéndez Pelayo' in Santander, Spain 1995; the Officer of the Order of the Arts and Letters from the Ministry of Culture in France; the Order of North Rhine-Westphalia; MIPIM Man of the Year Award; the 'Building' Award Construction Personality of the Year 1996; the 'Premi a la millor tasca de promoci— international de Barcelona' for the international promotion of Barcelona; the Silver Medal of the Chartered Society of Designers 1997; the German Federal Order of Merit 1999;Walpole Medal of Excellence; and also in 1999 he became the 21st Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate . In 1995 the practice was awarded the Queen's Award for Export. Norman Foster is a member of  the Royal Institute of British Architects; a Member of the Royal Academy of Arts, London; a Royal West of England Academician; Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects; a Royal Designer for Industry; Fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers; Honorary Member of the Bund Deutscher Architekten; a member of the International Academy of Architecture, Sofia; Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Sweden; Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers; Honorary Fellow of The Royal Academy of Engineering; Honorary Fellow of the Kent Institute of Design; and Foreign Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the Royal College of Art, the Technical University of Eindhoven and the Universities of London, Bath, East Anglia, Humberside, Manchester, Oxford and Valencia. He is a holder of the Japan Design Foundation Award and the Kunst-preis, awarded by the Akademie der Künste Berlin.