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David Chipperfield

Sir David Alan Chipperfield CBE RA RDI RIBA (born 18 December 1953) is an English architect. He established David Chipperfield Architects in 1985.

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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 one does, from the books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do is connected.

Believe, Book, Books, Bring, Children, Connected

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 people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.

Bathroom, Buildings, Cheerful, Mirrors, People, Thinking

I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between architects, conservationists, curators, client, politicians, the media, and the public. Discussions, even when difficult, were always about ideas. Ideas matter to Germans. They're a reflective people. That's attractive.

Architects, Germans, Media, Museum, Museums, Real

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

Filling, Filling In, Lasts, Missing, Preserve, Somehow

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 it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.

Architecture, Ball, Balls, Forces, Good, Interesting

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

Design, Difficult, Moralities, Morality

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

Criticism, Historical, Ideas, Irrelevant, Studios

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 looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.

Bad Ass, Badass, Changing, Mean, Spectacular, World

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 make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk?' Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens.

Creative, Desk, Important, Working, Workplace

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

Design, Designer, Industrial, Littles

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

Age, Architecture, Suppose, Trying

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 and thought are inspirational.

Building, Close, Der, Looks, Quality, Simple

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

Architecture, Bad, Differences, Good And Bad, Spend, Time

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 about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

Architecture, Levels, Ridiculous, Work

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

Cost, Costs, Millions, Think, Thinking, Years

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 isn’t trusted.

Architecture, Pay, Trusted, Want