Architecture Quote by David Chipperfield Download Open image “Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.” — David Chipperfield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Britain Cheap Get Good Lasting
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… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture. — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
The more the UK feels distanced from European construction the less others are able to benefit from the full influence of the many good… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
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… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money. — Shahid Khan Copy Share Image
I grew up in southeast London and there's a lot of brutalist architecture. — Kate Herron Copy Share Image
You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it. — James Dyson Copy Share Image
I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between architects, conservationists,… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
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… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
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… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
We see buildings in Britain mostly as freestanding objects. They are not meant to have a dialogue with anything around them, or with history,… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
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,… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
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… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
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… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
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… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels… — Paul Simon Copy Share
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image