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
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We just didn't have any intensity starting out. We made some adjustments at halftime and spent the second half trying to come back. Our guys didn't give up.
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I like the idea of trying to influence society by taking a brief, then maybe subtly changing it or looking at it in a new way to see what interesting things can emerge.
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Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.
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We don't see the need to sell it in the first place.
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We'd appreciate everybody coming out and supporting us. Both of our teams need to win one of the next three conference games to go to state. But our goal is to win them all.
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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.
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Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.
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The Ranelagh Gardens in Chelsea provide plenty of opportunities to walk, think and relax.
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I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.
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The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
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'Be passionate about your work and your life' was instilled in me by my mother Dada, who was a potter. She also introduced me to the arts and encouraged me to embrace the new.
Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.
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Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.
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Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.