Richard Rogers Quotes

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• My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we -…
• Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
• The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
• Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to…
• This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.
• Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something…
• I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the…
• Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
• The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
• I like the idea of trying to influence society by taking a brief, then maybe subtly changing it or looking at it in a new…
• Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and it is a…
• Clearly, private developers can have different aims, and architects can only play a certain role. You can have some pretty big battles on public commissions,…
• Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.
• My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is…
• I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is more civilised than between nations. There is an…
• I cycle, which is a healthy thing for an 80-year-old to do. I rarely go further than five miles, but in those five miles I…
• I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in…
• I love my job. What would I retire to?
• My parents always told me that nothing was impossible.
• Architecture is always political.

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