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

~David Chipperfield

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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.

~David Chipperfield

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I have always worked a bit with fashion people. I worked with Issey Miyake for a while, then Dolce & Gabbana; now we're working with Valentino. It's fine. The fashion world is a fairly weird world, but there are good people in it. It's weird because their timetables are unbearable.

~David Chipperfield

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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.

~David Chipperfield

Topics: About Architecture Bad Ball Commerce Either Forces Found Good Interesting Itself Least Sure Up Where You

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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 an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is a column and beam.

~David Chipperfield

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

~David Chipperfield

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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.

~David Chipperfield

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Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

~David Chipperfield

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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.

~David Chipperfield

Topics: Building Close Construction Inspirational Look Materials Might Quality Sheer Simple Thought Up Van Very You

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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, marketing and 'accessibility', a word that usually means dumbing-down.

~David Chipperfield

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Architect

Born: December 18th, 1953

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