"If you live in a squalid environment, then……" — Richard Rogers
"If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does."
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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…
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Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
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The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
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Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces.…
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This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term view.
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Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to…
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I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the…
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Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
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The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
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I like the idea of trying to influence society by taking a brief, then maybe subtly changing it or looking…
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Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from…
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Clearly, private developers can have different aims, and architects can only play a certain role. You can have some pretty…
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