Richard Rogers on Modern Architecture (Pocket Perspectives) author-fernanda-canales In a new preface and

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Richard Rogers on Modern Architecture (Pocket Perspectives) author-fernanda-canales In a new preface andWritten in what architect Richard Rogers regarded as a moment of crisis in modern architecture, this essay considers how the way we build and live might change for the better. Poor design, monotony and inhuman scale are, Roger argues, not the results of a lack of talent nor the failures of the Modern Movement, but of a surrender to exploitative economic systems and inconsiderate business interests. Best known for his work on the Pompidou Centre in