Richard Rogers Quotes

Architecture is definitely a political act.

Architecture is politics.

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

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.

Architecture is a political art connecting our values to the ages.

Influence is not government.

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

Win and keep the confidence of your leader. Never refuse or quash schemes he puts forward: but ensure that they are put forward in the first instance privately to you. Always approve them, and after praise modify them insensibly causing the suggestions to come from him, until they are in accord with your own opinion. When you attain this point, hold him to it, keep a tight grip of his ideas, and push him forward as firmly as possible, but secretly so that no one but himself (and he not too clearly) is aware of your pressure.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, masses about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive men [i.e. governments], and the men who succumb to their own motive forces.

Politics is about power, and it is about group power.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding and wielding power.

Washington has political power combined with the insider illusion of being in control.

Politics is who gets what, when, how.

As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.