
“Serving the popular very good” is the ultimate target of the jobs designed by architect David Chipperfield, no matter whether they be civil, cultural, or household structures or urban masterplans. The jury of the Pritzker Architecture Prize centered on this component in their determination for awarding the prestigious award to the British architect in 2023. The prize set up in 1979 by the Pritzker family of Chicago and awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation is viewed as the world’s most prestigious award for architecture, equivalent to the Nobel Prize in other disciplines.
In a occupation spanning extra than four decades, David Chipperfield has worked in Europe, North The us and Asia, making architecture that steers obvious of developments and fashions, responding to the certain functions of every single particular person venture and placing. As observed by Jury Chair and 2016 Pritzker Prize Laureate Alejandro Aravena, David Chipperfield’s tasks, both individuals requiring a gesture that is robust and monumental and all those which virtually vanish into their surroundings, are normally created and created with fantastic precision and care, completely ready to endure the take a look at of time, going beyond fashions and tendencies to come to be “everlasting”, capable of long lasting both equally physically and culturally.
Illustrations of his incredible projects contain a variety of current works in significantly historic settings. In these renovation jobs, the architect usually takes into account the social and environmental nicely-remaining that will result as he patterns or redesigns the capabilities and accessibility of properties. The undertaking typically underlines the authentic structures instead than changing them, creating a dialogue with time and put.

In his undertaking for the James-Simon-Galerie in Berlin, for example, the creating with its majestic colonnades, staircase and large terrace is made specially to grow to be a place with a character of its own, the central entrance to Museum Island, giving crucial functions for the overall museum procedure.

In his restoration of the 16th-century Procuratie Vecchie advanced in Venice (2022), David Chipperfield and his studio favored a adaptable tactic employing a series of tiny changes fairly than a one architectural gesture. Interpreting the heritage of the position, the architects used regional personnel and historic tactics to reclaim the frescoes, flooring and plaster, restoring the integrity of the buildings when mediating among the new necessities and the uniqueness of 1 of the most agent places in the city of Venice.

In Paris, the former Préfecture de Paris was transformed into the new “Morland Mixité Capitale“. Restoration and enlargement of the complex revitalised the entire district. In a reversal of the current pattern, the architects reworked a location that appeared closed and inaccessible, with no urban vitality of any variety inside it, into an open, very important campus with a broad and really diversified assortment of household and services offerings, as properly as furnishing passers-by with new urban perspectives in a new visible and bodily passageway to the Seine.
(Agnese Bifulco)
Photographs courtesy of architect and The Hyatt Foundation – Pritzker Architecture Prize
Captions and Credits
01, 03 James-Simon-Galerie, photo courtesy of Ute Zscharnt for David Chipperfield Architects

02 Procuratie Vecchie, picture courtesy of Richard Davies

04-05 James-Simon-Galerie, picture courtesy of Simon Menges

06 Sir David Alan Chipperfield, image courtesy of Tom Welsh

07-09 Procuratie Vecchie, picture courtesy of Alessandra Chemollo

10 Procuratie Vecchie, picture courtesy of Alberto Parise

11-12 Morland Mixité Capitale, photograph courtesy of Simon Menges