A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

— Richard Rogers

Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old Lefties, global capitalism does have its good side. It's broken down barriers - the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union - it's raised a lot of people up economically, and for architects, it has meant that we can work around the world.

— Richard Rogers

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

— Richard Rogers

Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.

— Richard Rogers

Architecture is always political.

— Richard Rogers

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

— Richard Rogers

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

— Richard Rogers

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

— Richard Rogers

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

— Richard Rogers

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 corner shop, a surgery. Then you're living well.

— Richard Rogers