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to welcome to this very special edition of your coming to you from the heart of berlin today we're featuring one of the world's leading architects sir david chipperfield so let's go inside and meet up. and here he is david tepper field thank you so much for having us today and it's a pleasure to meet you and you've also helped us put together a program so we thank you for that as well. ok first we know berlin is a base for you i'm. i can't help but ask you how is your german. terrible you know what you mean after so many years. what they want to hear speaks english as well so you try and speak try and use it in the shop and there were just replies to you in english especially right here in the center of the latest berlin is a bubble from that's what it is absolutely is ok with some talk about your career path how you chose architecture i mean for you was there are your reka moment

a defining moment or did architecture choose you know i grew up in the farm in the country and i grew up on the phone and i think my first. passion was to be with animals and to be a vet or something like that but. my father also bought some buildings and renovated them and i worked on those with him. so i don't know i sort of became interested in in architecture and i i wasn't great at school but i had a really good teacher really you know one of those teachers that you know we all dream of that you know this. and speired you inspires you and looks after you and you know you know and i was quite good in the. room and i sort of hid a little bit in the room it was my sanctuary and i think he was very he was very important so to encourage me now i'd say it's quite an encouraging rate you have

offices pretty much all over the world you have one here london milan shanghai some three hundred staff dozens of projects every year how much of the job especially as an architect and design think how much is in your hands and how much do you delegate to other people. i dedicate an enormous amount. you know i think architecture is is not to a singular activity certainly not now if it ever was i mean the image of the you know the creative artist staying up at night with a bottle of whiskey and a. and drawing you know. i don't think that exists anymore i think the world you know the the nature of our projects the nature of how we work is highly collaborative. so you know designing buildings is one thing designing a structure designing an office is is no the more important you know how do you

create an environment a creative environment with within which people can flourish and take responsibilities and at the same time you know how do how do you hold the bits together you know i mean it's. it's important that we have a an approach an attitude so that's my responsibility is to sort of you know from my farming background i suppose you know keeping all the animals in the field stopping them. on that card we want to take a closer look at some of your lifetime achievements david chipperfield is no doubt one of the world's most esteemed architects let's take a look at some of his work so far. lincecum noir neptune art gallery by ludwig means founder row up it's a shining example of modernist design now it's covered over for renovations david chipperfield architectural firm is in charge. ideally.

if we do our work well you will not know that we've done and. the noise and that's in our gallery was opened in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight. of the eyes you take. now fifty years later me spend a rose grandson joins david chipperfield for the tradesman's building party he'll be serving as a consultant during the renovation. chipperfield is there for become. does he chipperfield hasn't become known so much for restoring the old landmark buildings their original condition or the board. more for incorporating the history the life story of the building and bringing it to love this could borders. on. david chipperfield constantly on the go between his four offices around europe

and in shanghai he studied in london and started his own architectural firm in one thousand nine hundred five. his restoration of billions noise museum brought his international breakthrough. after ten years of construction work the noise museum was reopened in two thousand and nine david chipperfield has also created entirely new museums like the hip with wakefield gallery in england and the who makes museum in mexico city. his timeless architecture as in barton vuitton birds common that for him is simple straightforward open and unobtrusive. this symmetry chapel in a gallery japan blends elegantly into its natural surroundings. david chipperfield has been knighted and bestowed with many accolades the me spanned a row award among them. in twenty twelve heechee rated the venice biennale that of

architecture. in twenty thirty and he was awarded the prestigious premium in perry iowa for its two hundred fiftieth birthday last may london's royal academy of arts got an overhaul from david chipperfield including a new second entrance into new rooms that restructured the interior and now it has an auditorium as well. one of the reasons he was appointed was the enormous success of noise resilin in bloom which i remember during the trip with dave that we're pointed to him he was completely the right to go partly because he's holding great esteem by his fellow academicians architects here but also that he has this very light touch that enables you to combine the contemporary. and historical. with this year david chipperfield firm also completed a number of new buildings such as the headquarters of a cosmetics company in south korea. merlin's annoyer not so now gallery

is completely gutted for now but in the end the architect signature will hardly be recognisable it may well just be an instance of the british understatement they river. fields' berlin office is a modern complex a comfortable atmosphere for his employees so here we are in your berlin office you've been here since one thousand nine hundred seven why we're living. very simple we won a competition for the rich restoration reconstruction of the noise museum. this was. super complicated project both technically programatic clearly politically even socially. so it was a project which you could not do a distance i mean it's a project that we really had to be on the ground in the office begun. a small cabin on the site outside of the building so how has berlin developed architecturally

things your first arrived the biggest changes i would say in recent years is the. increase in value of the city and the fact that the rest of the world has much to the surprise of the berliners have decided that you know britain is a place to be and people have moved here. in the beginning it was not huge investments and i would say interesting the city changed a lot because it's a place where young people want to come but now what's happening is investments coming right now you're british and we know that the u.k. is in intense negotiations right now over leaving leo how does greg that affect you personally. well let's start from a professional point of view. i'm not sure i mean we have offices here and we have offices and so we could so we could pretend that it's not such a big issue on the ground it is a problem because we have

a lot of your national scene on london office maybe fifty percent i think. the way that they've been treated this is terrible. and i would say personally it's demoralizing i think it's. you wake up every morning wishing it was a bad dream and we should it's a very negative you feel like you're you know you've gone into reverse gear you know i mean. you know i was born in i'm fifty three somehow you always have the feeling that things progressed right and you have the feeling that breaks it is a sort of dead end and so on the flip side of that back and one which is definitely progressing forward your feelings can be found through out the theory how do you approach these projects that are so deeply rooted in german history. well i suppose the noise museum. was all mess and was you know was our grounding in this discussion and we couldn't have had a you know a more profound you know being thrown into the deep in the in this discussion but i

think it i think we embrace. i mean the simple and simple answer is to britain embrace it and enjoy it and in the way the science that things are so meaningful in berlin everything means something you know it's a city then it's with history and you know the anecdotes is of course that all cities have history in but it has too much. and of course that's something which we try to integrate into our considerations like what we want to take a closer look at the indelible mark that you have left on berlin's famous museum island. five major museums are crowded on to berlin museum island in the river. museum which houses the collection of classical antiquity. the arts and. nineteenth century art.

museum which cuts the cost of egyptian. among its collection with the paddle more newseum currently undergoing renovation with its famous pergamon altar. and the board of museum which boasts an impressive collection of sculptures. every year more than two million people visit this unesco world heritage site. i really like so many museums being in such close proximity to each other here and . it was the only twice. i think i like the greek history more germany gather a lot of treasuries from conference so it will be very interesting to me. new museum was heavily damaged in world war two and stood in ruins for many decades

in two thousand and three british architect david chipperfield and his team began major restoration work on it at first not everyone appreciated his plan to combine historical and modern elements but now his work is celebrated as an impressive architectural achievement. david chipperfield and started on this project in one thousand nine hundred nine his philosophy was to respect the ruin and not to cover up the marks left by history he wanted to restore and carefully preserve this historical building for a while sensitively complementing it with modern elements. and what and from. the fields architecture firm develops amongst the plan to overhaul museum island and also draw up plans for berlin is brand new james gallery it's set to open its doors in the summer of twenty nineteen and will serve as the entrance building and visitor center for museum island to be friends right now the five museums are like

five friends sitting at one table. but with their backs to each other. and. james in the gallery will link the open spaces and museums with each other. field also worked on buildings near the items such as the gallery house on the cook for now on the museum island forum on the back of the river. to british architecture has certainly left his mark on the lens historical city center. so these are monumental sites on museum island which project was the most challenging. both were challenging obviously and one was working. with a run the other was that there was a new building on. you know in a place where the to bring modern architecture is very difficult i suppose noise museum was was was more challenging it was more complex than that and i and i think

it was much more in the public. view in the public consciousness and it was part of a very strong debate and i think it was also more connected with history now this this public debate surrounding the noise museum did it check your car confidence at all or change your plans. no i don't think so i think that architects have to. explain themselves you know i think it's incumbent on us i mean i think that sometimes the profession as a sort of sense of entitlement. i think because i've always worked in foreign places i mean my very first projects were in japan. i never felt in titles in a way that for you you have to sort of respect the responsibility that you've been given so as an english or as a foreign architect doesn't matter whether english or not i mean to to be given this incredible cultural responsibility. is a is

a very complex. you know thing and therefore it's not a it's not about what you think it's about how you can can gather. thoughts and ideas and give them shape and did you have to cut through a lot of red tape german notorious red tape briefly. on the whole i rather like red tape i mean it's you know i would say brits it is about getting rid of this red tape it's the anglo-saxon culture i think that enterprise works better without red tape but red tape is there for a reason often as well i mean you know maybe this if you list too much sometimes but the principle of red tape is not wrong so you not only have a penchant for berlin you also have a i have a connection to go the theater in spain what draws you to this region. accidentally we went there twenty five years ago with three small children and have been going there of a sense and built a house and. i think it's. you know i mean we always use words in

a very crude way but it's you know it's unspoiled which of course one can say that about a lot of places. on the other hand i would say. that you know not a terrible world it's very real. it's it's a poor area in many ways but actually it's a very rich area in terms of its. its landscape its way of life. and i think for us in the family it's been fantastic to be back into you know interested in the news when when it's not a tourist area and therefore to spend your holidays in a let's call it a more real and environment is. important for the children as well there also has a rich cultural history so we want to take a closer look at why our guest spend so much time there. in the

region of policial in northwestern spain is famous mainly for santiago de compostela a destination for pilgrims from all over the world. breathtaking views historic sites and rugged coastlines with steep cliffs add up to a delicious time in. just over forty kilometers southwest of santiago de compostela is the fishing village of coral bed with the typically spanish terraced houses built right up to the base age one of them with its vast picture windows stands out from the rest british architect david chipperfield designed and built it about twenty years ago as a vacation getaway he's been spending his summers here ever since the town's people had to get used to the modern style. of b.p. oil field but it was something different the first people were curious to know what

was being built in a little space but they were quite pleased with the results elaborate for me and i think in particular the seamen who sailed past it actually envied mr chipperfield a little in the aggregate n.p.v. of. the village lies in. site the genes of coral bit of park one of six natural parks in. the wetlands and sand dunes provide a habitat for both domestic and migratory bird species. the reus by sharks are extremes that cut deep into the coastlines they sheltered by tails square brass made of eucalyptus wood around two thousand of them are anchored in the rio to arouse alone ropes are hung on them to attract muscles which grow on them alfredo otero makes his daily rounds on his boat. but. growing muscles a family business and very much a tradition. that is passed on from generation to generation my grandparents

started doing it and handed it on to my parents and uncle and they handed it on to my cousins and myself. it takes the muscles about a year and a half to reach full size during that time the rope with the muscles attached is pulled aboard the boat again and again to pick the mussels off and clean and then spread to several more rugs with nets the work is done partly by hand and partly mechanized. the machines take on some of the physical work. but the method of working and cultivating the muscles is exactly the same as it has been for eighty years. alongside farming and fishing the cultivation of various kinds of mussels remains one of the least his economic mainstays its development in harmony with the natural habitat and the gleason culture is the primary objective of the food at sea on

founded by david chipperfield in twenty six taking. the market in addition we wish to create a place for people and institutions to meet with the producers universe. isn't relevant authorities can get together and talk and participate in planning development for the future. for sustainable development of the region for the new laid out. along with sustainability maintaining quality is critical this aspect is monitored throughout the processing and the proof is in the taste of a typical deletion mohsen dish these can be had in any number of restaurants in english but the reality of ours are. staying within the complex we continue our conversation in a more relaxed location. so stylish muscles are you a fan well i'm i'm a fan of the whole ecology of that part of the world. we've spent

a long time there and as you saw from the reports about the foundation you know i mean we're we've become you know interested not only i mean i was asked to help on the sort of urban planning and the sort of architecture controlling the helping to control the architectural development but increasingly we've become involved in the whole environmental issue and of course. the quality of life is very much based on on sort of traditional farming fishing forestry and and that's become you know it's part of the appeal of that area well why is it important to you does it have anything to do with your childhood you said you grew up on a farm you know going back to ecological issues i mean it's something it's something quite personal for you. as architects we try to engage with social purposes it's two things you know it's making things and it's also having you know

having purpose trying to serve society in some way i mean this is every architect's . overriding. drive is to be useful to society say on an increasingly it's more difficult and i found myself in the least where i can be useful to society in some way i can bring my expertise. as a sort of privileged outsider you get listened to maybe a bit more than you should be and and you can. yeah you can you can try to help them protect those things which you think are important and may be overlooked that they overlook and of course it is about how we relate to the world natural world and the built world. and how we protect things and how we develop things now we've talked a lot about the things that you have created all the time is there anything on the

list that you haven't built yet that you'd like to do. i think you know. we are very much used to building singular buildings you know we are we we benefited enormously from building museums which are in a way privileged commissions i would say. as i tried to say before you know it was architects you're interested in not just the singular building but in the way architects architecture is contribution to society and that's something we find very much missing and we'd like to be a bit more involved i guess in housing in schools in things which. might contribute more to the fabric of society social fabric not just physical so we know you have a lifetime of achievement behind you and you've marked a milestone birthday and with any worth they got one wish once yours.

well this is always difficult i mean you have personal wishes and professional wishes but i suppose if i stood back. these rather complicated days i would say first of all that my wish would be the brics it never happens and i suppose i'm out to buy it so that i would say that trump will resign that well those are two wishes we'll see what happens or they have that comes from all right sir david field we thank you so much for having us today here in one of your bases in berlin reporting the show together with us thank you very much and with that we have come to the end of the show from me and the rest of the crew here in berlin and from third david we thank you for tuning in and you can always keep up on the show on all of our social media pages course they don't think. about.

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