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
against architecture build future measured
Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
architecture light structure tends
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.
architecture built change ethos future leave retain
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.
littles architecture courses
Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.
cities city-planning architecture
Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.
space architecture building
Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
past trying architecture
Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.
principles architecture profit
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
brings buildings garden gives group parking presence surrounded together until
Until now, we've been a group of buildings surrounded by parking lots, ... Now the garden brings all the buildings together and gives us a real presence and identity.
architects certain developers good private public
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.
activity easier information primary seen virtual
So I think that, yes, anything that makes it more palatable and easier to understand, such as a Virtual Centre, has to be seen as a primary activity within the educational and information global state.
car displace journeys leads local public replace shops suburban
Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.
environment
You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!
architect danger fathers knew looking nearly public radical thinking
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.'