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
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If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.
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Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.
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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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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.
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We'd appreciate everybody coming out and supporting us. Both of our teams need to win one of the next three conference games to go to state. But our goal is to win them all.
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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.
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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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Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting.
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Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.
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The Ranelagh Gardens in Chelsea provide plenty of opportunities to walk, think and relax.
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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.
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The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
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'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.
Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.