David Chipperfield
David Chipperfield
Sir David Alan Chipperfield CBE RA RDI RIBAis a British architect...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth18 December 1953
David Chipperfield quotes about
architecture art books common design edit german interest literature magazine novels plus shared spanish surrounded wasted
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 and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design.
integrity interesting may
I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity.
architecture britain lasting
Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.
engineering years cake
I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.
concept convincing german people
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 been so convincing without it.