Quotes by Architects

I don't believe in the ownership of work. Richard Rogers

Work Ownership Believe

I cycle, which is a healthy thing for an 80-year-old to do. I rarely go further than five miles, but in those five miles I can get to 80 percent of the places I want to go. Richard Rogers

Healthy Further Those Rarely Percent Go Healthy Thing Five Than Get Want Which Places Cycle Miles Thing

I love my job. What would I retire to? Richard Rogers

Love Job Would Retire

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as I've often said, people who are excluded from society tend to express themselves in ways not acceptable to society. Richard Rogers

Education Good People Down Society Too Enough Ways Tend Excluded Excluding Remotely Schools Acceptable Said Often Children Them Themselves Who Many Express Lets British Imaginative

When I started out, nearly every architect I knew was working in public practice; that's where the radical thinking was done. But, there's always a danger of looking back as our fathers did and saying, 'Things were better then.' Richard Rogers

Saying Better Looking Looking Back Practice Radical Every Thinking Fathers Back Our Danger Out Architect Knew Always Were Did Done Where Public Then Working Nearly Things Started

I remember my mother taking me to see the Picasso show in the 1940s, and I was impressed by the life and vibrancy of it all. It was a bit too avant-garde for most Londoners at the time, but since then, the city has become a centre for modern culture. Richard Rogers

Family is everything, although I've been fortunate enough to have worked with some of the most amazing minds over the years, including Renzo Piano, John Young, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour. Richard Rogers

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building. Robert Venturi

Building Part Employ Unusual Very

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart. Russell Page

Heart Fingers Green Extension

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. Stephen Gardiner

Revolution Extraordinary Those Civilization Industrial Industrial Revolution Another Jumps Story Forward

The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world. Stephen Gardiner

Interior World Outside Outside World Part House Private Private World Exterior

The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character. Stephen Gardiner

Life Character Interior Inspiration Since Without Cannot Much Derives Exterior

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature. Stephen Gardiner

Nature Men Out Prompted Mystery Come Leave Caves Womb

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden. Stephen Gardiner

Gardening Garden Interior Design Both Beyond Concerned Land

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. Stephen Gardiner

Architecture Community Respected Scale Both Individual Georgian

What people want, above all, is order. Stephen Gardiner

People Architecture Above Order Want

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. Stephen Gardiner

Architecture States Victorian Straight England United United States Copied

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England. Stephen Gardiner

War Conflict Had Until Been Up Roses England

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look. Stephen Gardiner

Today Every Remarkably Look Known Housing Modern Romans Form Used