David Chipperfield Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.
• Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.
• 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…
• 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…

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