David Chipperfield - Form Matters
An exhibition catalogue published to accompany the Form Matters exhibition at The Design Museum.
"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 Chipperfield
This beautifully designed and presented book is a personal ‘notebook’ that follows no fixed system, but rather documents the realisation of formal ideas from Chipperfield's 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 Chipperfield was born in London in 1953. His bureau David Chipperfield Architects was established in 1984 and the practice currently has over 150 staff at its main offices in London, Berlin and Milan and representative office 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.
Introduction by The Design Museum director, author and critic, Deyan Sudjic.
Essays by David Chipperfield across four chapters: On Form, Language, Composition and Materiality.
Book Design by John Morgan studio, London.
Form Matters is currently showing at The Design Museum until 31st January 2010.
160 pages.
126 illustrations, mostly full colour.
Format
27 x 20 cm
Materials
Softcover with dust jacket.
