Best quotes by David Chipperfield on Architecture

Checkout quotes by David Chipperfield on Architecture

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

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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.

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• ‟ 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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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