COMMENT: RICHARD ROGERS ON THE CHANGING ROLE OF ARCHITECTS

摘要

Obviously the economic situation is a big problem. For a person who firmly believes in social responsibility, unfortunately greed has become [a part] of society and not just of western society. I've seen tremendous disparity between rich and poor, between small offices and big offices. There is no question things have got worse. In my generation everybody who left the AA at the end of the 1950s, as I did, went to work for schools, hospitals, councils. That was part of the social responsibility of architects. We were trying to build houses for heroes who were coming back from the war. There was a search for a better quality of life.