Richard Rogers quotes on the design and construction of the Pompidou Building, Paris, given at a lectured at Harvard GSD in October 2016.

1. Richard Rogers on the Pompidou Building :
Quotes from the CGBC Annual Lecture 2016
( with apologies to my children who were forced to have their pictures taken in front of the building one cold and rainy
day in 2010.)

2. “Two Unemployed
architects are better
than one”
Richard Rogers on his
friendship with Renzo Piano.
“Renzo and I speak
almost every day”.

3. Richard Rogers
POMPIDOU
“Brilliant
clients are
essential for
any
successful
project”.

4. Buildings are like books, they should have
chapters and paragraphs.”

5. “Flexible
buildings should
be considered
sustainable”.
Richard Rogers

6. “We were
attacked by
everybody. We
were sued 7
times on this
project”.
Rogers on Pompidou.

7. “ A woman hit
me over the
head with her
umbrella when I
confessed I was
the architect of
the Pompidou”
Richard Rogers

8. “More people
visit the
Pompidou than
the Eiffel Tower
and the Louvre
combined”
Richard Rogers

9. “Colour
=
Happiness
=
Pompidou.”
Richard Rogers

10. Buildings
and people
should have
fun.”