archatlas: David Chipperfield Architects Since its foundation in 1985, David Chipperfield Architects
archatlas: David Chipperfield Architects Since its foundation in 1985, David Chipperfield Architects has developed a diverse international body of work including cultural, residential, commercial, leisure and civic projects as well as master planning exercises.Chipperfield talks insistently and passionately about architecture, about the things that, in his view, actually matter in the design of buildings, and the things that don’t. He likes “permanence”, “substance” and “meaning”, and dislikes designs that are spectacular for the hell of it. “I don’t think architecture is radical,” he says. “How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?” He is generally too diplomatic to name names and when he does mention one, Zaha Hadid’s, he is careful to praise her “real genius”, but it is clear that her buildings are among those he has in mind when he criticises the “application of genius willy-nilly”.He thinks that architecture now tends to alternate between self-indulgent fireworks and acting as a tool of developers. “Architecture has curled up in a ball and it’s about itself,” he says. “It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you’re not sure if it’s good or bad but at least it’s interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.”From the top:Museo Jumex, MexicoPrivate House Kensington, LondonAmerica’s Cup Building ‘Veles e Vents’, ValenciaThe Hepworth Wakefield, West YorkshireOne Pancras Square, London Check out other projects by David Chipperfield Architects featured on archatlas:Xixi Wetland EstateVilla Eden Private House in CorrubedoImages and text via David Chipperfield Architects additional text via -- source link