94 Quotes by Richard Rogers

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 is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.

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

I don't believe in the ownership of work.

I love my job. What would I retire to?

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

My parents always told me that nothing was impossible.

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.