Richard Rogers Quotes

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.

I just wondered how things were put together.

I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect - but I think I might need to go back to school for that.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

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

Engineering or Technology is the making of things that did not previously exist, whereas science is the discovering of things that have long existed.

Studying engineering was natural for me; I was always interested in technology and building things.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

Some people design buildings and aircraft carriers and cars - and I designed picks.

I am involved in the architecture of space.

I just want to build the best buildings. It's not about me, it's about the buildings, creating a space where society can gather and marvel in beauty and nature.

I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.

In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.