Quotes by : David Chipperfield

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

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....

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

I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a....

Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should....

If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality....

Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow,....

I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment....

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures....

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