David Chipperfield Quotes

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

Architecture trumps licensing any time.

There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it.

Everybody else, including the rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more.

There is nothing wrong when the Trump administration says it wants to find areas of common ground to work with Russia - perfectly reasonable. The question is, are you willing to pay the Russians in advance for the privilege of working with them in areas that are supposed to be of common interest, and that - I don't see the American interest in doing so.

If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks.

If we don't all leave the euro behind, it will explode. Either there will be a popular revolt because the people no longer want to be bled out. Or the Germans will say: Stop, we can't pay for the poor anymore.

Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around -- probably in the basement.

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.

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 something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.

Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably preoccupied with architectural meaning. Where else would a department store include in its advertisements the name of the architect who created it, or a newspaper property section throw in a scholarly exposition of theoretical design?

I'm never gonna try it, because you got to pay a lot for cocaine, and that's not the way I want to spend my money.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

I sure do want to make sure women get equal pay for the work we do.

We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.

I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than there is good and bad nature. It is all in where you stand at the time.

You can't reward people who don't want to work with more money than they would make while they were working.

You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy.

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.