David Chipperfield
Founder of David Chipperfield Architects
David Chipperfield founded David Chipperfield Architects in 1985. Today the practice comprises five offices in London, Berlin, Milan, Shanghai and Santiago de Compostela. Among the accolades Chipperfield has received are the RIBA Royal Gold Medal and the Praemium Imperiale. He was selected as the 2023 Laureate of The Pritzker Architecture Prize, in recognition of a lifetime’s work. In addition to design work, Chipperfield curated the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2012, under the title 'Common Ground’. In 2017 he founded Fundación RIA, a private, non-profit entity that works towards meaningful economic, environmental and cultural development in Galicia, Spain.
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Photography: Benjamin McMahon, courtesy of David Chipperfield Architects