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

~David Chipperfield

Topics: Academia Architects Criticism Divorced Historical Ideas Irrelevant Largely Most Research Studios Were Work

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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.

~David Chipperfield

Topics: Architecture Art Books Both Common Comparative Design Edit German Her Interest Like Literature Lot Magazine Me Novels Plus Shared Spanish Surrounded Us Used Wasted Which Wife

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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.

~David Chipperfield

Topics: Britain Cake Catalyst Design Engineering Icing Investment Like Quite Rather Regeneration Seen Than Urban Where Years

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When the Americans are behind you, they're behind you 100%, and this gives you real confidence as an architect. They expect you to lead a building project - to make the kind of big and costly decisions that, in Britain, have been handed over to project managers and cost-cutters.

~David Chipperfield

Topics: American Architect Been Behind Big Britain Building Confidence Costly Decisions Expect Gives Handed Kind Lead Make Managers Over Project Real You

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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.

~David Chipperfield

Topics: Angle Architect Bathroom Being Buildings Bureaucratic Cheerful Even Everyday Experience Help Hotel Like Little Living Making Mirror People Point Putting Raise Really Right Shaving Somehow Sure Think Where Window Would I Think

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

~David Chipperfield

Topics: Age Although Architecture Build Creatures Our Possible Suppose Timeless Trying

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I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

~David Chipperfield

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Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience.

~David Chipperfield

Topics: Actor Architects Audience Buildings Different Hard Languages Like Look Loose Make Often Our Own Parts Private Same Same Time Speaking Stage Time Too Trying Without Work

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

~David Chipperfield

Topics: Accept Bits Filling Last Material Missing Preserve Restore Somehow Supper Survived You

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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.

~David Chipperfield

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Architect

Born: December 18th, 1953

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