Quotes by David Chipperfield - Page 1

It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Design
Difficult
Morality
Oneself
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The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Architecture
Good
Differences
Good And Bad
Time Good Bad
Bad
Between
Difference
Spend
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Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Architecture
Britain
Lasting
Bargain
Cheap
Loves
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I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?
David Chipperfield / Architect
Architecture
Cost
Millions
Thinking
Years
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I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Design
Designer
Littles
Industrial
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I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Integrity
Interesting
May
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I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Age
Architecture
Creatures
Timeless
Trying
Suppose
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I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Acting
Executives
Goods
Ideas
Luxury
Managers
Suspicious
Architects
Brand
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Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Academia
Criticism
Divorced
Historical
Irrelevant
Research
Studios
Architects
Largely
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Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Criticism
Historical
Ideas
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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 / Architect
Bits
Filling
Filling In
Lasts
Missing
Supper
Survived
Accept
Last
Material
Preserve
Restore
Somehow
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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.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Architecture
Pay
Want
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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.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Inspirational
Quality
Construction
Looks
Materials
Might
Sheer
Simple
Close
Van
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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.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Architecture
Levels
Ridiculous
Work Good Enough
Explain
Many Levels
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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 / Architect
Construction
Extraordinary
Smell
Standards
German
Concept
Museum
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There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Bad Ass
Badass
Mean
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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 / Architect
Different
Looks
Trying
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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 / Architect
Architects
Time Work Look
Buildings
Languages
Work Time Look
Loose
Parts
Private
Same Time
Speaking
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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 / Architect
Architecture
Balls
Commerce
Interesting
Forces
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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.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Accessibility
Britain
Europe
Lifestyle
Marketing
Mean
Architectural
Valued
Magazine
Replace
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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.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Britain
Cake
Catalyst
Engineering
Icing
Investment
Regeneration
Urban
Years
Outgrowth
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Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all that one does, from the books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do is connected.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Architecture
Believe
Book
Children
Consistent
Life Believe Your
Life Is A
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It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working. But we said, why can't we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk? Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Creative
Important
Workplace
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It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working, But we said, 'Why can't we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk?' Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Casual
Creative Work
Workplace
Work Your Better
Work Better Your
Desk
Work Better Sometimes
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When the Americans are behind you, they're behind you 100%, and this gives you real confidence as an architect. They expect you to lead a building project - to make the kind of big and costly decisions that, in Britain, have been handed over to project managers and cost-cutters.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Architect
Britain
Managers
Costly
Handed
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I have always worked a bit with fashion people. I worked with Issey Miyake for a while, then Dolce & Gabbana; now we're working with Valentino. It's fine. The fashion world is a fairly weird world, but there are good people in it. It's weird because their timetables are unbearable.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Fashion World
Good People
Unbearable
Valentino
Good Always World
Fairly
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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 / Architect
Association
Beam
Fascism
Unfortunate
Architectural
Column
In The End
Recover
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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 / Architect
Angle
Architect
Bathroom
Cheerful
Everyday
Hotel
Mirrors
People
Shaving
Thinking
Window
Buildings
Bureaucratic
Mirror
Putting
Raise
Somehow
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I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a PhD 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 / Architect
Art
Book
Wife
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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 / Architect
Architecture
Design
Common
Interest
Literature
Plus
Art Design Architecture
German
Books
Art Architecture Design
Comparative
Edit
Wasted
Magazine
Novels
Shared
Spanish
Surrounded
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I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between architects, conservationists, curators, client, politicians, the media, and the public. Discussions, even when difficult, were always about ideas. Ideas matter to Germans. They're a reflective people. That's attractive.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Media
Museums
Real
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We see buildings in Britain mostly as freestanding objects. They are not meant to have a dialogue with anything around them, or with history, or with ideas of any kind beyond the self-referential. What we call 'regeneration' is largely an excuse for building for maximum profit with a bit of sculptural design thrown in to catch the eye of the media.
David Chipperfield / Architect
Eye
Media
Self
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