About Quote by David Chipperfield

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

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

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

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 with history,…

— 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 - all branding,…

— 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 how a…

— 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 from such…

— 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 not have…

— David Chipperfield

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

— David Chipperfield