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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it’s a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed. Richard Rogers Read Quote
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 Read Quote
In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It’s that contrast we like. Richard Rogers Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know. Richard Rogers Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close. Richard Rogers Read Quote
