Richard Rogers Quotes

• The problem is not style but quality, not aesthetics but ethics.

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• Architects cannot work in a vacuum; unlike other artists they are totally dependent on a site, a brief and finance.

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• ‘Form follows profit’ is the aesthetic principle of our times. Thus, design skill is measured today by the architect’s ability to build the largest possible enclosure for the smallest investment in the quickest time.

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• There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

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• The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

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

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• My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children.

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

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• I don’t understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

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• 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’ too seriously.

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• Cities are about juxtaposition.

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• Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

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

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• 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 go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish.

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• I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago – at least over 30 years ago – to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

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• I’m just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change – rather than just ‘mix it up’.

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• I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down.

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• I think you could make a completely Virtual Centre, though I have a general feeling, and maybe because I am getting very old, that you still need face to face.

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• It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.

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• So I think that, yes, anything that makes it more palatable and easier to understand, such as a Virtual Centre, has to be seen as a primary activity within the educational and information global state.

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Richard Rogers (28)

Birth:	23rd July, 1933
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Architectural Designer

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Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside CH Kt FRIBA FCSD is an Italian-born British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs. Rogers is perhaps best known for his work on the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Lloyd's building and Millennium Dome both in London, and the European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg.

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