About Quote by Richard Rogers

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

— Richard Rogers

Cities are about juxtaposition.

— Richard Rogers

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the…

— Michael Arad

“Conventional histories of architecture talk about style, and the uniqueness of buildings as though they are art objects, like paintings, independent of their context.…

— Wade Graham

We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to…

— Daniel Libeskind

Throughout history, cities have been associated with incredible bursts of creative energy - the Renaissance in Florence, or modernism in Paris. London is the…

— Munira Mirza

Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty…

— Rebecca Solnit

Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply --…

— Lilian Whiting

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash…

— Herb Caen

All through organized history, if you wanted prosperity you had to have cities. Cities are places that attract new people with new ideas.

— Jane Jacobs

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

— Joseph Brodsky

“The beauty of modern cities consists in a sense of their power, cruelty, impersonality, massiveness, + variety (as in New York or London) seen…

— Susan Sontag