Richard Rogers: Architecture Is "A Place For All People"
The following is an extract from A Place for All People, a new semi-autobiographical manifesto by Lord Rogers. It is a mosaic of life, projects and ideas for a better society, ranging backwards and forwards over a long and creative life, integrating relationships, projects, stories, collaborations and polemics, with case studies, drawings and photographs.
Centre Pompidou (1970s). Image Courtesy of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
The following is an extract from A Place for All People, a new semi-autobiographical manifesto by Lord Rogers. It is a mosaic of life, projects and ideas for a better society, ranging backwards and forwards over a long and creative life, integrating relationships, projects, stories, collaborations and polemics, with case studies, drawings and photographs.
Richard Rogers. Image Courtesy of 2013 Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
A Place for All People"Are you sitting down, old man"" Renzo Piano asked, when I picked up the phone (he is four years younger than me). I reassured him that I was. "We have won the Beaubourg competition," he explained. "The announcement is in Paris this evening. We have to be there but I can?t get away from Genoa; could the rest of you fly over from London""We hardly had time to digest the news, let alone prepare for the dramatic change in our working lives that it heralded. My mother, who was gardening at her Wimbledon house, cried with joy when I told her o...
Centre Pompidou (1970s). Image Courtesy of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
The following is an extract from A Place for All People, a new semi-autobiographical manifesto by Lord Rogers. It is a mosaic of life, projects and ideas for a better society, ranging backwards and forwards over a long and creative life, integrating relationships, projects, stories, collaborations and polemics, with case studies, drawings and photographs.
Richard Rogers. Image Courtesy of 2013 Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
A Place for All People"Are you sitting down, old man"" Renzo Piano asked, when I picked up the phone (he is four years younger than me). I reassured him that I was. "We have won the Beaubourg competition," he explained. "The announcement is in Paris this evening. We have to be there but I can?t get away from Genoa; could the rest of you fly over from London""We hardly had time to digest the news, let alone prepare for the dramatic change in our working lives that it heralded. My mother, who was gardening at her Wimbledon house, cried with joy when I told her o...
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