David Chipperfield

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

If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

We have to base architecture on the environment.