David Chipperfield

David Chipperfield founded David Chipperfield Architects in 1985. He developed a design methodology now applied in his five offices located in London, Berlin, Milan, Shanghai and Santiago de Compostela.

In addition to his design work, David Chipperfield has taught and lectured worldwide. In 2012, he curated the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, titled Common Ground , and was a guest editor of the Italian design magazine Domus in 2020.

Among the distinctions received by David Chipperfield are the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and a knighthood for services to architecture. In 2011, he received the Royal Gold Medal from the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) and, in 2013, the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association. In 2021, David Chipperfield was made a Fellow of the Order of the Companions of Honour and was named the 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate in recognition of his lifetime achievement.