Chipperfield described as an architect ‘radical in his restraint’ as he takes dwelling prime trade honours.
British architect David Chipperfield has been awarded the Pritzker Structure Prize — the sphere’s prime award — for his understated however transformative designs.
The 69-year-old was honored for “timeless fashionable design that confronts local weather emergencies, transforms social relationships and reinvigorates cities,” the organizers mentioned in a press release.
Chipperfield has labored on greater than 100 tasks over 4 many years starting from cultural, civic and tutorial buildings, to city planning and residences.
“He’s a prolific architect who’s radical in his restraint,” the organizers mentioned in a press release asserting the 2023 winner, “demonstrating his reverence for historical past and tradition whereas honoring the preexisting constructed and pure environments.”
Chipperfield mentioned he was “so overwhelmed” to develop into the prize’s 52nd laureate.
“I take this award as an encouragement to proceed to direct my consideration not solely to the substance of structure and its that means but additionally to the contribution that we will make as architects to handle the existential challenges of local weather change and societal inequality,” the assertion quoted him as saying.
Based mostly in London, with places of work in 4 different international locations, Chipperfield has labored throughout Europe, Asia and the USA.
He’s famend for renovations and reconstructions of previous buildings, updating them for the fashionable age whereas honoring their historical past and tradition, and preserving the pure atmosphere.
Amongst his greatest is a rebuild of the Neues Museum in Berlin, which was constructed within the nineteenth century and largely destroyed in World Conflict II, and the reinvention of a Sixteenth-century Venice landmark, the Procuratie Vecchie, which the Pritzker Prize organizers mentioned “ redefined the civic capability of this constructing inside the coronary heart of town to permit common entry for the primary time”.
In Asia, it cited Chipperfield’s headquarters for Amorepacific in Seoul, which it mentioned harmonized “the person and the collective, the personal and the general public, work and respite,” and the Inagawa Cemetery Chapel and Customer Middle in Hyogo, Japan, the place “the bodily and religious coexist, with locations of solitude and gathering, for peace and looking for”.
Chipperfield was born in London and raised on a farm in Devon, in southwest England, the place he has mentioned a set of barns and outbuildings formed his early impressions of structure.
He based his structure agency in 1984.
The Pritzker Structure Prize was established in 1979. Winners obtain a $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion.
Earlier laureates embody IM Pei, Zaha Hadid and Shigeru Ban.
Final yr, Burkina Faso-born Diebedo Francis Kere grew to become the primary African winner of the prize.
