97 — Richard Rogers' Reith Lecture — Cities for a Small Planet
About Buildings + Cities
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Building a Square in Front of a Building
i kind of love richard, but there is something a tiny bit disingenuous about saying what was wonderful about creating this square. Actually having the square there is a precondition for the building being a success. You don't have a memorable image of the building if you don't have that square there. I think it was, it was a nice idea, r and i'm to think it's fine, but a, actually, it's good for spaces to have a bit of character and some limitations. The architecial practice only really started once rogers himself stopped being able to sufficiently impair that he can no longer really ring up e mars of seres and self stuff.
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