Yale School of Architecture graduates Su Brumwell, Richard Rogers, Wendy Cheesman and Norman Foster - together with Cheesman's sister Georgie Wolton, who was the only qualified architect in the group but left after several months – established Team 4 in 1963.
The studio complete a few projects before splitting in 1967, with married couple Rogers and Brumwell setting up Richard + Su Rogers Architects, and Foster and Cheesman, who by then were also married, establishing Foster Associates.
Here are 4 major projects of Team 4 competed by 1967
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| Creek Vean, 1966, Feock, Cornwall Built for Brumwell's parents, Team 4 designed Creek Vean to be fully embedded in its cliff-side location overlooking a creek on the southern coast of Cornwall. Built from honey-colored concrete blocks, visually the house is broken into two. The steps leads from the waterside across a bridge to the drive way. Below this path a house arranged linearly with bedrooms on one side of the path and living areas on the other, connected by a top-lit corridor. |
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| Skybreak House, 1966, Radlett, Hertfordshire Skybreak House is best known for its appearance in Stanley Kubrick's film, A Clockwork Orange. The house is split into three strips for different uses. Each step down the slope that it is built on. Sliding panels divide the kitchen in the centre of the house with the living space on the western side and the bedrooms and bathrooms on the eastern side. |
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| Reliance Controls, 1967, Swindon, Wiltshire The factory & office for electronics company Reliance Controls was the best architectural language that the Fosters and Rogerses continued to use in their separate studios. The building was built from prefabricated metal components, with clearly visible structure. |
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| The Retreat, Creek Vean, 1966, Feock, Cornwall The retreat was built near the house that Team 4 designed for Brumwell's parents, while that house was under construction. This actually was the first building completed by Team 4. Set into the ground, the cockpit-like structure has a trapezoid concrete shell, with built-in seats alongside a small kitchen including a stove. The seating area was covered by a glass canopy described as a "complex, crystalline polyhedron". |
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