Interview between David Chipperfield and Martha Thorne

An interesting interview with David Chipperfield and the Vice Dean for External Relations at the IE School of Architecture and Executive Director of the Pritzker Prize, Martha Thorne, has appeared on the pages of the media campus of Madrid's IE University.
In the interview, David Chipperfield discusses the changes that the architectural professions have undergone recently. He talks about the increasing quality of the average (specifically citing Spanish architecture as an example), yet expresses concerns about the growing commercial pressure and the use of architecture merely as advertising. The problem is that architects today are afraid to speak about their opinions and ideas; they prefer to resort to methodological descriptions of their works. Chipperfield also comments on the use of computers in design, which he considers a tool like any other, with all its positives, but also its negatives, which are often overlooked. Nowadays, it is often more important to think about how to make a visualization for the client than about how to design the building itself.
To Martha Thorne’s question about how to teach students today, Chipperfield responds with a sentence that he usually says to students at the beginning: "Stop looking at images and think about ideas!"

Chipperfield visited IE to present his design for the development plan of the art and technology campus in the Spanish city of Sogovia. You can also find the presentation on the IE media campus pages (Part 1, Part 2).