Chipperfield Exhibition
Last week Emma and I went to see the Chipperfield Exhibition at the Design Museum during our few days off. I really admire some of their work and I was looking forward to seeing more of it. Highlights included the incredible models as well as a large section devoted to the Neues Musueum in Berlin. However some of the text had a real air of arrogance about it, especially about not building much in the UK, as if they deserved to build here. It was also interesting that there was no real mention of a client or end user in a lot of the text. I was left with a feeling that some of their work is over detailed and perhaps too perfect in many ways. It also felt slightly joyless and austere. Architecture for Architects perhaps which is ultimately not my thing.
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I completely agree! I went to see the Chippy exhibition yesterday, and left feeling the same thing, the absence of any indication of a client was really bizarre.
I really enjoyed his early works, but the more recent stuff seems to really struggle (Apart from the Berlin project), the Chipperfeild orthodox against the program… such as the City of Justice in Barcelona (which I have seen and its pretty un-human).
OK… rant over with… I agree, over dogmatic architecture for architects… not my thing either… shame.
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