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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. "
Richard Rogers
You
Need
Face
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" 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
Flow
Work
Good
" Architecture is always political. "
Richard Rogers
Political
Always
Architecture
" 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
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" Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish. "
Richard Rogers
City
Walk
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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. "
Richard Rogers
Proud
Night
Great
" I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down. "
Richard Rogers
Pretty
Top
Think
" 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
My Life
Love
Window
" 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.' "
Richard Rogers
Looking Back
Thinking
Saying
" 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. "
Richard Rogers
Tax
Change
Political
" The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood. "
Richard Rogers
Childhood
Never
You
" 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
Important
People
You
" There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close. "
Richard Rogers
Family
Jewish
Close
" 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
Someone
Beautiful
City
" 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
Look
Architecture
You
" Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. "
Richard Rogers
Our
Principle
Aesthetic
" 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
Depend
Healthy
" 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
Play
Key
Good
" 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
Young
Minds
Amazing
" Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know. "
Richard Rogers
Little
Architecture
Know
" 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
Cousins
Family
Month
" Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. "
Richard Rogers
Architecture
Business
Planning
" 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. "
Richard Rogers
Poor
Problem
Think
" My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children. "
Richard Rogers
Love
Being
Mother
" The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast. "
Richard Rogers
Fast
Widening
Rich
" 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
Stupid
Child
Confidence
" 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
Architecture
Living
Future
" '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
" 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. "
Richard Rogers
I Am
Competition
More
" Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built. "
Richard Rogers
Clients
Something
Without
" 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