"I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake."

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Source : "'In Britain, money and marketing are what matter most'". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.

David Chipperfield

#Engineering Quotes #Years Quotes #Cake Quotes

“We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.”
“The Internet has no such organization - files are made available at random locations. To search through this chaos, we need smart tools, programs that find resources for us.”
“The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by building roads, bridges and putting locals to work.”
“That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better”
“Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutions" often point to deeper problems. In social life, as in nature, we are walking on a trampoline. Every inroad reconfigures the environment we tread on.”

Source : Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin (2010). “The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems”, p.192, Harvard Business Press
“I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil.”

Source : "Danny Huston on playing villains, Nick Cave, and more". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. November 12, 2012.
“If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls.”
“I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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