Richard Rogers

Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies…

— Richard Rogers

My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see…

— Richard Rogers

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

— Richard Rogers

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I…

— Richard Rogers

My parents always told me that nothing was impossible.

— Richard Rogers

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

— Richard Rogers

I believe very much in a dialogue between buildings - I believe it's always been there. I think buildings have different identities…

— Richard Rogers

I love my job. What would I retire to?

— Richard Rogers

The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that 'I shall leave…

— Richard Rogers

Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet…

— Richard Rogers

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

— Richard Rogers

Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has…

— Richard Rogers

Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and…

— Richard Rogers

As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being…

— Richard Rogers

As architects we have a responsibility to society

— Richard Rogers

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

— Richard Rogers

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

— Richard Rogers

Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change -…

— Richard Rogers

Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say 'but you can't do that' aren't actually very important. I don't take 'no'…

— Richard Rogers

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to…

— Richard Rogers

If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very…

— Richard Rogers

Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old…

— Richard Rogers

I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is more civilised than between nations.…

— Richard Rogers

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and…

— Richard Rogers

I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to…

— Richard Rogers