“When the Americans are behind you, they're behind you 100%, and this g...” — David Chipperfield Quote

“When the Americans are behind you, they're behind you 100%, and this gives you real confidence as an architect. They expect you to lead a building project - to make the kind of big and costly decisions that, in Britain, have been handed over to project managers and cost-cutters.”

“I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.”

“I have always worked a bit with fashion people. I worked with Issey Miyake for a while, then Dolce & Gabbana; now we're working with Valentino. It's fine. The fashion world is a fairly weird world, but there are good people in it. It's weird because their timetables are unbearable.”

“I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.”

“When you get an invitation to come back and be part of the team that will be the architect of the next generation of growth, when you get an opportunity in a business of the size and scope of McDonald's, that's incredibly attractive.”

“My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.”