david chipperfield so let s go inside and meet him. and here he is david server field thank you so much for having us today and we re it s a pleasure to meet you and you ve also helped us put together series programs so we thank you for that as well. ok first we know berlin is a base for you i m and i can t help but ask you how is your german terrible. 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 show and there were just replies to you in english especially right here in the center believe this is a bubble from 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 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
off the ice 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 the chipperfield hasn t become known so much for restoring the old landmark buildings to their original condition or a board. more for incorporating the history the life story of the building and bringing it to loved 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 berlin s noise museum brought his
constrained by having too much in a small building i mean we ve grown up with seventy percent of. the new passage may be small but its effect is enormous it connects the two historical buildings making the entire institution readily accessible. this isn t the first time david chipperfield has given hallowed old halls a new lease on life. when you re building a new building. you are you are the orso so everything you have to defend your ideas. when you are working with an existing building you re defending the building you re defending your you re working on behalf of the building you know we re normally. the other people are also interested in building so you have a common you are more united than. the newest museum on berlin s museum island
they started is located in sure and i should a small town just east of berlin. it s harvest season the manufacturer from gluten was started over twenty years ago by martina gardner cabbage after she discovered the joy of cooking with flowers on a trip to france by. the fact that flowers simply look great and they can also give food a whole new taste component no herbal spice tastes like rose eleven elderflower these a tice components. that we add to the front and make it incredibly exciting. martina grows a wide range of flowers on the one hundred twenty square meter plot including roses of course. was the roses my favorite flower it doesn t necessarily have to be combined with sweet things it goes well with savory dishes to some people call flower cuisine rabbit i don t think it must be like salads and
justify everything you do you shouldn t be there. it s not your place so you have to. this privilege very carefully and to prove that you could bring something. to it that. someone from that might not be able to. other chipperfield creations include the helpers wakefield gallery in england completed in two thousand and eleven. who makes museum in mexico city finished in two thousand and thirteen and a recently dedicated scimitar a chapel in in ago in japan david chipperfield has projects the world over. my career has been built. at the. courtesy of others. other cultures and therefore i have been i think very self-conscious that my