this is. the ball. with. this world this week on 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 him. and here it is david tepper field thank you so much for having us today and we're it's a pleasure to meet you thank 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 can't help but ask you how is your german terrible. weather which after so many years. where they want to hear speaks english as well as you're trying to speak trying to use it in the short term there when just replies to an english especially right here in the summer there's been in this a bubble from what it is that absolutely is ok with some talk about your career path how you chose architecture i mean for you was there are your rico moment a defining moment or did architecture choose you. 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 and. 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 fired 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 sort of encouraging me now i would say it's quite encouraging when 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 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 that 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 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 that 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. the lincecum noir neptune art gallery by ludwig means founder o.-r. it's a shining example of modernist design and 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 the one nine hundred sixty eight.

of the as 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 therefore become. does the 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 purported. 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 buildings 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 chaplin in a gallery japan blends elegantly into its natural surroundings. david chipperfield has been knighted and bestowed with many accolades the means spend a row of water among them. and twenty twelve he generated the venice biennale that of architecture. in twenty thirteen he was awarded the prestigious premium imperio . 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 and a new rooms that restructured the interior and now it has an auditorium as well. as one of the reasons he was appointed was enormous success of noise museum 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 orthotics hero but also that he has this very light touch that enables 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. millions of noir not soon art gallery is completely gutted for now but in the end the architect signature will hardly be recognizable it may well just be an instance of the british understatement they

reject. fields' berlin office is a modern complex a comfortable atmosphere for his employees so here we are in your berlin off with 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 a. super complicated project both technically programatic clearly politically even socially. so it was a project which you could not do with distance i mean it was a project that we really had to be on the ground in the office began with. a small cabin on the side 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 of our view of the city and the fact that the rest of the world has much to the surprise of the berliners have decided that 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. well let's start from a professional point of view. i'm not sure i mean we have offices here and we have offices among them 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 nationals in london office nearly 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 one fifty three somehow you always had the feeling that things progressed right and you have the feeling that wrecks it is a sort of dead end and so on the flip side of that fact and one which is definitely progressing really for your buildings can be found through out the three how do you approach these projects that are so deeply rooted in german history. what i suppose the noise museum. was all less and was you know was our grounding in this discussion and we come to how to you know a more profound you know being thrown into the deep in the in this discussion but i think it i think we embraced. i mean the simple and simple answer is to britain embrace it and enjoy it and in the way the facts 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 and britain 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 famous museum island. five major museums are crowded on to berlin is museum island in the river. which houses the collection of classical antiquity. the arts and. nineteenth century on. which cuts the cost of egyptian. among its collection. the palpable museum currently undergoing renovation with its famous part of an altar. and the

boarded 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. so for. us from germany there are a lot of transferees from conference so it's very interesting to me the noise or 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. but did 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 for a while sensitively complementing it with modern elements. and what i'm going through. the fields architectural firm develops amongst the plan to overhaul museum island and also draw 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 to be friends right now the five museums are like five friends sitting at one table. but with their backs to each other. and. the chains in the gallery will link spaces and

museums with each other. on. the field also works on buildings near the island such as the cannery house on the cook for now on to museum island forum on the opposite speck of the river. the british architect has certainly left his mark on the lives 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 was was more challenging it was more complex and remote and i think it was much more in the public. view of the consciousness it was part of a very strong debate and i think it was also more connected with history now

there's 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 architects have to. explain themselves you know i think it's incumbent on us i mean i think that sometimes a 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 the way therefore you know you have to sort of respect the responsibility that you've been given so there's an english or it's a foreign architect doesn't matter whether or not i mean to to be given this incredible cultural responsibility is that 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 so you know i mean i would say breaks it is about getting rid of this red tape because the anglo-saxon culture thinks 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 when you went there twenty five years ago with three small children and have been going there ever since 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. his landscape its way of life. and i think for us in the family it's been fantastic to be back into. the norm interested. when with 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 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 timeless 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 b.p. oil 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 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. . the village lies in. slightly gins 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 s. trees that cut deep into the cars lines they sheltered by tailless square rafts made of eucalyptus wood around two thousand of them are anchored in the rio to arouse unknown ropes are hung on them to attract muscles which grow on them alfredo a taro makes his daily rounds on his boat. but the. growing muscles a family business and very much a tradition. that is 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 spread to several more broads with the work is done partly by hand and partly mechanized. you know you leave your p.c. the machines take on some of the physical work. obviously. 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 muscles remains one of the least is economic mainstays its development in harmony with the natural habitats and the galician culture is the primary objective of the fund as. founded by david chipperfield in twenty sixteen. in addition we wish to create

a place for people and institutions to meet with the producers universe. isn't relevant authorities to get together and talk and participate in planning development for the future. process dana bull development of the region for the new look it up. along with sustainability maintaining quality is critical this aspect is monitored throughout the processing and the proof is in the taste of the typical deletion mussel 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 there and of course. the quality of life is very much based on on sort of traditional farming fishing forestry. 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 freo. 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 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 is

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 fabric so we know you have a lifetime of achievement behind you and you've learnt a milestone birthday and with any worth they got one wish what's yours. 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 brits it never happens and i suppose i'm allowed to buy it so that i would say that trump will

resign well those are true wishes we'll see what happens or they have some stroke all right sir david chipperfield we thank you so much for having us today here in one of your bases in berlin and 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 david we thank you for tuning in and you can always keep up on the show on all of our social media pages thinking through. the right.

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