Verlag Walthe Herb - Buchhandlung Walther König

20 x 27 cm, 160 pages,
c. 126 col. illustrations.
Softcover with dust jacket
English
978-3-86560-688-4
€ 28,– / chf 49,–
Architecture / Architektur
David Chipperfi eld, born 1953 in
London. His bureau David Chipperfi eld
Architects was established in 1984 and
the practice currently has over 180 staff
at its main offi ces in London, Berlin
and Milan and representative offi ce in
Shanghai. The practice has won over
40 competitions and many international
awards and citations for design
excellence, including RIBA, RFAC & AIA
awards and the Stirling Prize 2007.
Design Museum, London,
21.10.2009 – 31.01.2010
10 herbst / fall 2009
David Chipperfi eld.
Form Matters
Introduction by Deyan Sudjic. Essays by David Chipperfi eld
This publication was initiated by David Chipperfi eld who also is responsible for concept
and design. In four chapters he refers to topics he also writes on: ‘On Form’, ‘Language’,
‘Composition’, and ‘Materiality’. He did also choose for the images and architectural
sketches and drawings.
Ω ‘As architects we must both be part of and stand apart from the culture within
which we operate. To be effective we must embrace power but also distance ourselves,
we must engage in dialogue and we must refuse to listen, we must explore
the familiar and the unfamiliar, we must embrace history and reject it. Finally we
must resolve our ideas in matter and form.’ (David Chipperfi eld)
David Chipperfi eld presents a very personal ‘notebook’ that follows no fi xed system,
but rather documents the realisation of formal ideas from his own viewpoint, using
sketches, plans and illustrations of built and unbuilt projects—a personal statement on
his work to date. He explores the relationship between form and matter, both conceptually
and in its concrete realisation in architecture.
David Chipperfi eld legt ein ganz persönliches „Notizbuch“ vor, das keiner festgelegten
Systematik folgt, sondern aus seiner eigenen Sicht die Umsetzung von formalen
Ideen mit Skizzen, Plänen und Abbildungen von gebauten sowie ungebauten Projekten
dokumentiert.
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