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David Chipperfield
David Chipperfield
British Architect
Born: Dec 18, 1953
Architects Architecture Design Good Work You
Related authors: Edwin Lutyens John Foster Kenneth Frampton Norman Foster Richard Rogers Russell Page Stephen Gardiner Zaha Hadid
Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant. David Chipperfield
Work Criticism Research Architects Divorced Studios Academia Ideas Most Were Historical Irrelevant Largely
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. David Chipperfield
Art Me Architecture Wife Design Books Magazine Plus Both Shared Like Edit Lot Surrounded German Common Literature Which Interest Spanish Us Used Comparative Novels Wasted Her
Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience. David Chipperfield
Work Time Own Stage Too Our Architects Like Look Make Parts Loose Without Audience Buildings Private Trying Same Often Same Time Different Languages Hard Speaking Actor
I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer. David Chipperfield
Myself Design See Industrial Lot Very Little Asked Certainly Designer
I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful. David Chipperfield
Experience People Mirror Living Think Everyday Bathroom Would Window Somehow Architect Angle Point Putting Hotel Like Cheerful Shaving Sure Buildings Making Bureaucratic Being Where Little Really Help Even Right Raise
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. David Chipperfield
Good You Architecture Bad About Forces Sure Ball Least Up Itself Commerce Where Either Interesting Found
It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is a column and beam. David Chipperfield
You Language Think Type About Architectural Beam Recover Column Talking Became Because End Yes In The End Unfortunate Certain Fascism Association
The quality of the Neues Museum's construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and people can smell that quality. The concept would not have been so convincing without it. David Chipperfield
Construction Quality People Smell Extraordinary Would Concept Without Been German Convincing Standards Even Museum
You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived. David Chipperfield
You Bits Restore Somehow Supper Missing Accept Material Survived Filling Last Preserve
I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical? David Chipperfield
Architecture Radical Think Something Costs Takes How Years Millions

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