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I’ve just come back from the exhibition at the Design Museum and I thought it would be a nice idea to post few comments about the unique experience.

The excitment of speaking to David Chipperfield has shaken my evening. I don’t even know how I had the idea to approach him during the view of the exhibition. I was having a look here and there since the room was quite crowded at the beginning and I saw him wondering around the room. After a quick but amable chat I asked him the autograph and I went back to the beautiful models of the exhibition.

I have to say that the evening has been particularly inspiring for a series of reasons. I found the projects selected for the Design Museum quite interesting and informing at the same time (there were projects that are still to be completed).  I would probably argue the way with the projects were separated because there wasn’t a single path of circulation within the space. I loved the narrative through the big scale models throughout the room. The axonometric drawings on the white walls were an other really effective way to express the ‘reflective and resonant’ design of David Chipperfield.

It was overwhelming to see that his buildings are so similar to my way to see architecture. It is weird to think that 2 years ago I didn’t know much about him and, just recently, I have spent time looking at his way to convey semplicity and pureness through geometry, proportions and materials. I have always asked myself whether there can be a way to  make the ‘architecture lasts and resist the culture of spectacle’. David Chipperfield in my opinion cleverly succeded in this intent.