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

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 …

- David Chipperfield

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

- 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 spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between architects, conserva…

- David Chipperfield

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 …

- David Chipperfield