David Chipperfield Quotes

I love architecture.

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

I'm very interested in architecture.

Building design isn't trendy.

Architecture is invention.

The future of architecture is culture.

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

I'm a trained architect. Both my parents were architects.

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.