“I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in compar...” — David Chipperfield Quote

“I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design.”

“Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.”

“I love food, and my girlfriend comes from an architecture background, so we might open up a restaurant.”

“To come to England in the 1970s was to return to this strange other-world of half-known history. I found the imperial architecture curiously familiar: the post office, the town hall, the botanic gardens.”

“The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.”