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 Read Quote
I do very little industrial design. I’m asked a lot, but I certainly don’t see myself as an industrial designer. David Chipperfield Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’m suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods. David Chipperfield Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant. David Chipperfield Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Britain loves a bargain, but you don’t get good, lasting architecture on the cheap. David Chipperfield Read Quote
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 Read Quote
