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Richard Rogers

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Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.


— Richard Rogers


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


— Richard Rogers


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


— Richard Rogers


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Architecture is about public space held by buildings.


— Richard Rogers


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Cities are about juxtaposition.


— Richard Rogers


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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


#dyslexia #i #important #made #me

I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.


— Richard Rogers


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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


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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


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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


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At that time his practice had secured a number of projects in New York including the redevelopment of the Silvercup Studios site a masterplan for the East River Waterfront and a commission for a $1. Early life and career

Rogers was born in Florence in 1933 and attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London before graduating with a master's degree from the Yale School of Architecture in 1962. Richard George Rogers Baron Rogers of Riverside CH Kt FRIBA FCSD (born 23 July 1933) is an Italian-born Britisharchitect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs.

Rogers is perhaps best known for his work on the Pompidou Centre in Paris the Lloyd's building and Millennium Dome both in London and the European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg. Richard George Rogers Baron Rogers of Riverside CH Kt FRIBA FCSD (born 23 July 1933) is an Italian-born Britisharchitect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs. He is a winner of the RIBA Gold Medal the Thomas Jefferson Medal the RIBA Stirling Prize the Minerva Medal and Pritzker Prize.

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