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. I…

- David Chipperfield

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 r…

- David Chipperfield

We see buildings in Britain mostly as freestanding objects. They are not meant to have a dialogue with anything around them, or with history, or with…

- David Chipperfield

There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means s…

- David Chipperfield

I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a PhD in comparative literature so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books whic…

- David Chipperfield

I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity.

- David Chipperfield

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

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

- David Chipperfield

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