Architect Quote by David Chipperfield

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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.”

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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.

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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