"Architecture is always political." — Richard Rogers
"Architecture is always political."
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44 Quotes by Richard Rogers
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- My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is…
- 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.…
- 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…
- I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between 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…
- Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from…
- Clearly, private developers can have different aims, and architects can only play a certain role. You can have some pretty…
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