government. selling old. dead donkey. starts december twenty ninth d.w. . germany's capital and probably also the uncrowned capital of construction sites but one world famous architect has been involved in some very important projects. we want to welcome to this very special edition of your own max 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 it is david turner field thank you so much for having us today and it's a pleasure to meet you thank you and you've also helped us put together stays 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 well which after so many years. where they want to hear speaks english as well you're trying to speak trying to use it in the shop and there were just replies to you in english especially right here in the summer this is running as a bubble from the front and it isn't absolutely is ok let's talk about your career path how you chose architecture i mean for you was there are your ricoh moment a defining moment or did architecture choose you. you know i grew up in a 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 it's. inspired you inspires you and looks after you and you know you know and i was quite good in the. room and i sort of hit a little bit in the room it was my sanctuary and i think he was very he was very important sort of encouraging me now i would say it's quite encouraging that 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 designer i think how much is in your hands and how much do you delegate to other people. i delegate 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 you know. 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 you know 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 to 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 around ask are we want to take a closer look at some of your lifetime achievement 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 nuts in our gallery by ludwig means founder rower 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. then my and that's an art 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 this stuff will become warm does he chipperfield hasn't become known so much for restoring the old landmark buildings to 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 former officers 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 boston vuitton bird's common virt 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 to me spend a row award among them. in twenty twelve heechee rated the venice biennale 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 auditory him as well. one of the reasons he was appointed was the enormous success of noise miserable 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 my was you to combine the contemporary. and historical. 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 soon our gallery is completely gutted for now but in the end the architect signature to hardly be recognisable it may well just be an instance of the british understatement david

uber. 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 were living. very simple we won the 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 for 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 since the. the increase of 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 a huge investment and i would say interesting the city changed a lot because it's a place where young people want to become 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 the e.u. how does greg that affect you personally. 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 say 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 sunan london office maybe fifty percent i think. the way that they've been treated is it's 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 one fifty three somehow you always had the feeling that things progressed right and you have the feeling that breaks it is a sort of deadened right so on the flip side of that back and one which is definitely progressing really forward your buildings can be found throughout the city how do you approach these projects that are so deeply rooted in german history . well i suppose the noise museum was. was all mess and was you know was our grounding in this discussion and we couldn't of 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 really i mean the simple and simple answer is to bring 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 essential then it's with history and you know the anecdotes is of course that all cities have history and voting has too much. and of course that's something which we try to integrate into our considerations are 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 is museum island in the river. museum which houses the collection of classical antiquity. the ultimate should only gallery nineteenth century on. the noise museum which cuts the bust of egyptian. among its collection. the paddleboard museum currently undergoing renovation with its famous pattern one

altar. and the board a 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 their only twice so for. like the greek is from or germany gather a lot of treasuries from their conference so it's it will be very interesting to me the noise or new museum was heavily damaged in world war two and stood in ruins for many decades and 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. chipperfield 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 while sensitively complementing it with modern elements and some so again. it's and water and food chipperfield architecture firm developed amongst a plan to overhaul a museum island and also drew up plans for berlin is brand new james e. moore 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 and of the 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. also works on buildings near the island such as the cannery house on the hook for now i'm to museum island forum on the opposite spec of the river. the british architect has certainly left his mark on the linz 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 the challenge of building a new building on. you know in a place where the to bring modern architecture is very difficult i suppose noise museum was it was there's more charm she was more complex than that and i and i think it was much more in the public. view 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 shake 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 has 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 and therefore you know 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 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 live too much sometimes but the principle of red tape is not wrong so you not only have a pension from berlin you also have a i have a connection to go d.c. and spain what draws you to this region. accidentally we went there twenty five years ago with three small children and have been going going to have 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 a norm interested in this when it's not a tourist area and therefore to spend your holidays and let's call it the more real and environmental as being important for the children as well also has a rich cultural history so we want to take a closer look at why our guest spends 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 and up to a delicious time this beauty. just over forty kilometers southwest of santiago de compostela is the fishing village of coral bed with a 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 the p.p.o.'s field but it was something different the first people were curious to know what was being built in the little space but they were quite pleased with the result it operate for me and i think in particular the seamen who sailed past it actually envied mr

chipperfield a little in the aggregate and gave. the village lies in. cited tunes of coral bit o. 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 s. trees that cut deep into the confluence they sheltered by tails square grass 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 a taro makes his daily rounds on his boat. but. growing mussels a family business and very much a tradition. it's passed on from generation to generation my grandparents started doing it handed 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 the muscles often clean and then they're spread to several more broads with 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 habitats and the galician culture is the primary objective of the food. founded by david chipperfield in twenty sixteen. in addition we wish to create

a place for people and institutions to meet with producers universal. isn't relevant authorities can get together and talk and participate in planning developments for the future. for a sustainable development of the region with the new look it up. along with sustainability maintaining quality is critical to this aspect is monitored throughout the processing and the proof is in the taste of a typical deletion mussel dish these can be had in any number of restaurants among the shills for the radio vows are. staying within the complex we continue our conversation in a more relaxed location. so stylish models are you a fan well i'm i'm a fan of the whole ecology of that part of the world and 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 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 everything 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 that something quite personal for you. as architects we try to engage with social purposes so 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 benefit enormously from building museums which are in a way privileged commissions i would say. as i tried said before you know it is architects you're interested in not just the singular building but in the way architecture 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 fabric so we know you have a lifetime of achievement behind you and you've marked a milestone birthday and with any birthday you've got one wish what's yours. this is always difficult for me. your 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 allowed to buy it so that i would say that trump will resign well those are two wishes we'll see what happens or they have the throw all right sir david we thank you so much for having us today here in one of your bases in berlin and supporting 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 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. the market.

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the rain forest i watched them grow up here they've left but they always come back. yes they always come back. for my trees there were. my plants their medicine. for my beauty their escape and and have always been. and i for ever. push humans they're so smart so smart and such big brains and opposable thumb. they know how to make things amazing things now why would they need an old forest like me any. chunk of train. well they need to breathe air. and i make.

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