Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.
From Richard Rogers
I remember my mother taking me to see the Picasso show in the 1940s, and I was impressed by the life and vibrancy of it all. It was a bit too avant-garde for most Londoners at the time, but since then, the city has become a centre for modern culture.
The Ranelagh Gardens in Chelsea provide plenty of opportunities to walk, think and relax.
If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed.
I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down.
If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does.
I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'.
In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.
There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.
Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.
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