David Chipperfield

I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between…

— David Chipperfield

Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent…

— David Chipperfield

I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of…

— David Chipperfield

Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not…

— David Chipperfield

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

— David Chipperfield

I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.

— David Chipperfield

We see buildings in Britain mostly as freestanding objects. They are not meant to have a dialogue with anything around them, or…

— David Chipperfield

In Britain, we've tended to replace the kind of architectural culture valued in much of Europe with an in-flight magazine lifestyle -…

— David Chipperfield

There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care…

— David Chipperfield

I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity.

— David Chipperfield

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…

— David Chipperfield

The quality of the Neues Museum's construction is extraordinary even by German standards, and people can smell that quality. The concept would…

— David Chipperfield

It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

— David Chipperfield

When the Americans are behind you, they're behind you 100%, and this gives you real confidence as an architect. They expect you…

— David Chipperfield

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

— David Chipperfield

Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all…

— David Chipperfield

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…

— David Chipperfield

You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow…

— David Chipperfield

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…

— David Chipperfield

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…

— David Chipperfield

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

— David Chipperfield

I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design…

— David Chipperfield

Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.

— David Chipperfield

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

— David Chipperfield

I have always worked a bit with fashion people. I worked with Issey Miyake for a while, then Dolce & Gabbana; now…

— David Chipperfield