Richard Rogers

“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.”

“A room is the beginning of a city.”

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

“Architecture is a slow business, and it is a team sport.”

“Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.”

“Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves and the world, and this mediation takes place through the senses.”

“We are all the products of our cities.”

“Architecture celebrates space.”

“A building is a microcosm of a city – the city is a macrocosm of a building.”

“The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce better buildings, more sensible, more human, more sensitive, more ecological.”

“Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.”