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Richard Rogers
Richard Rogers
British Architect
Born: Jul 23, 1933
About Architecture Life People Think You
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The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved. Richard Rogers
Environmental Quality Everybody Way Only Environment Involved Improve Get Going Forward
Architecture is about public space held by buildings. Richard Rogers
Architecture Space About Buildings Public Held
Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know. Richard Rogers
Architecture Older About Know Course Very Get Little Less
There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close. Richard Rogers
Family Too Tradition Italian Close Families Then Jewish
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. Richard Rogers
Me You People Seriously Made Important Too Say Though Take Very Realise Dyslexia Who Actually
Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting. Richard Rogers
Law Building Sit Cities Classical About Exciting Like Makes Buildings Built Courts Historic Effectively Contrast Listed Door Against Juxtaposition Next Next Door Right Florence Medieval
If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport. Richard Rogers
You People Car More More People Foot Had Around Getting Tax Public Transport Less Carbon
Clearly, private developers can have different aims, and architects can only play a certain role. You can have some pretty big battles on public commissions, too. The key is to have a good client. Richard Rogers
Good You Key Big Too Aims Battles Some Pretty Architects Only Developers Clearly Client Private Role Different Public Certain Play
I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well. Richard Rogers
Life Love You My Life Living Design Trees Spend Out Cities See Window About Most Well Talking Does Surgery Effect Square Bar Then Your Lucky Nearby
One of the things you see in New York is that offices keep their lights on at night. They're proud of their building. Great. But they must find another way to be proud without draining energy. Richard Rogers
Great You Building Energy Draining Way One Of The Things Must Find See Lights New Another Without Another Way Proud Offices York New York Keep Things Night
Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time. Richard Rogers
Time High High-Tech Most Cathedrals Buildings Gothic Were Whether Tech
I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to read very late, when I was 11. Dyslexia wasn't recognized then, and the assumption was you were incapable of thinking. Richard Rogers
You Confidence School Thought Trouble Stupid Lost Thinking Assumption Late Recognized Had Read Learned Were Lots Very Child Dyslexia Then Incapable Teachers
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
The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that 'I shall leave the city not less but more beautiful than I found it.' Richard Rogers
Beautiful Citizen Become Oath City About Someone More Shall Had Leave Than Swear Less Who Found
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
Life Time Me Culture Remember Mother Become Too Bit City See Picasso Taking Since Most Impressed Modern Modern Culture Avant-Garde Centre Then Show
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
Family Amazing Young Enough Everything Minds John Some Piano Over Most Most Amazing Although Been Years Graham Worked Fortunate Harbour Including
Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet to people from across the globe. Richard Rogers
People World Healthy Depend Cities City Vitality London Magnet Globe Mix Across Uses
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. Richard Rogers
You Country Live Out Environment Course Because Does Get Going Want Then
Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. Richard Rogers
Business Architecture Slow City Slower Planning Even
Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future. Richard Rogers
Future You Architecture Try Build Past Against Measured Imagine
I believe very much in a dialogue between buildings - I believe it's always been there. I think buildings have different identities and live very well next to each other. We always have the shock of the new, and that's fine. The renaissance style is totally different from the medieval, and they have a dialogue across time. Richard Rogers
Time Style Live Believe Think Other Fine Totally Between New Renaissance Identities Well Buildings Always Dialogue Been Very Shock Different Much Next Across Each Medieval
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. Richard Rogers
You Old Face Feeling Think Virtual Though Face-To-Face General Could Make Because Am Still Very Getting Maybe Centre Need
I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work. Richard Rogers
Work Family Big Year Go Away Every Month One Thing See My Number One Cousins Go Big Family Italy Very Away Thing Number Need
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