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" 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
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" You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous! "
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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. "
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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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Great
" 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.' "
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Thinking
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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You
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" Architecture is about public space held by buildings. "
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Space
Public
" Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. "
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Planning
" 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.' "
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Someone
Beautiful
City
" The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved. "
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Quality
Environmental
" My parents always told me that nothing was impossible. "
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Always
Nothing
Parents
" You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional. "
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Just
Fun
You
" 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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I Am
Competition
More
" '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. "
Richard Rogers
Me
Work
She
" Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know. "
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Little
Architecture
Know
" 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
Car
Social
Local
" 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. "
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Young
Minds
Amazing
" Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built. "
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Something
Without
" 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
Good
Education
Down
" There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close. "
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Family
Jewish
Close
" 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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Architecture
Living
Future
" I love my job. What would I retire to? "
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Retire
Job
Would
" 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. "
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Art
Over
Science
" Architecture is always political. "
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Political
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" Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and it is a complex situation. The small details of something such as climate change are political and social, and they are a lot about fairness and how we rebalance towards a fairer society. "
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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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Look
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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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Looking
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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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Culture
Time
" I don't believe in the ownership of work. "
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Believe
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