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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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.
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It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.
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I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'.
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The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.
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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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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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Barcelona has the best urban regeneration in Europe. They've changed 3.75 miles of rusting port and foul sand into the most beautiful beach where you can practically dive in from your hotel bedroom.
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I'd be very happy for an Architectural Centre put together on Virtual Lines. In terms of a Virtual Centre - I think that's part of it.
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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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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.
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Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.
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You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!
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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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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.