David Chipperfield
David Chipperfield
Sir David Alan Chipperfield CBE RA RDI RIBAis a British architect...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth18 December 1953
interesting balls architecture
Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.
architecture britain lasting
Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.
age trying architecture
I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.
want pay architecture
Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the architect isn’t trusted.
levels architecture ridiculous
A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.
differences architecture good-and-bad
The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.
architecture art books common design edit german interest literature magazine novels plus shared spanish surrounded wasted
I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design.
mean europe marketing
In Britain, we've tended to replace the kind of architectural culture valued in much of Europe with an in-flight magazine lifestyle - all branding, marketing and 'accessibility', a word that usually means dumbing-down.
engineering years cake
I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.
art book wife
I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design.
ideas luxury acting
I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.
design morality difficult
It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.
simple quality looks
If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.
design littles designer
I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.