Richard Rogers
Richard Rogers
Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside CH FRIBA FREngis a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs in high-tech architecture...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth23 July 1933
CityFlorence, Italy
My parents always told me that nothing was impossible.
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I love my job. What would I retire to?
believe ownership work
I don't believe in the ownership of work.
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If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.
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My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.
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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.
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Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
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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.
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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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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.
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If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed.
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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.
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I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is more civilised than between nations. There is an understanding there.
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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.