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.
