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Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

~ Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers Architecture Buildings

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

~ Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers Life Great Passion

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

~ Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers Aesthetic Profit Principle

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.

~ Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers Light Building You

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

~ Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers Future Past You

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

~ Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers Know Older Little

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.

~ Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers Art Technology History

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

~ Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers Business Planning City

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.

~ Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers Change Future Want

Architecture is always political.

~ Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers Political Always

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.

~ Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers Together Powerful

Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old Leftie, global capitalism does have its good side. It's broken down barriers - the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union - it's raised a lot of people up economically, and for architects, it has meant that we can work around the world.

~ Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers Work Good World

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

~ Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers Life Best Focus

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

Richard Rogers Love Life Trees

Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

~ Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers Transport Social Replace

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

~ Richard Rogers

Richard Rogers Quality Environment
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