2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize Winner - Sir David Alan Chipperfield CH
Mar 10, 2023
The 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize jury notes:
"In the public sphere, he is committed to presenting and defining the understated but transformative face of the city -- even in private commissions, with a pared-down style, avoiding embellishment and fashion, all with the most relevant message for contemporary society. Although less evident in recent years, the ability to put hardened-out designs into practice in a thoughtful way is an important dimension of sustainability: sustainability is relevance, which not only eliminates excess, but is the first step in creating buildings that are both physically and culturally sustainable."
Sir David Alan Chipperfield CH
Sir David Alan Chipperfield CH
Urban architects, urban planners and activists
He was awarded the 2023 Pritzker Prize for Architecture, internationally recognized as the highest honor in architecture.
Chipperfield was awarded the Royal Institute of Architecture Gold Medal (UK, 2011)
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture -- Mies Van der Rohe Prize (Spain, 2011)
Heinrich Tessenow Prize (Germany, 1999) and other awards
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (2008), awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2009), awarded the Imperial House of Japan Prize for World Culture (Architecture) by the Japan Art Association (2013), a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and an honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and the German Institute of Architects.
In 2012, Chipperfield curated the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale under the theme "Common Ground"; From 2016 to 2017, I was selected as the Architecture tutor of the Rolex Creative Arts Recommended Funding Program. He will serve as guest editor of Domus in 2020. He was a professor in the Department of Architecture at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1995 to 2001; In 2011, he was the Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor of Architecture and Design at Yale University.
Chipperfield's architectural career has spanned more than four decades, and he has completed more than 100 diverse works in the fields of civic, cultural and academic architecture, as well as residential and urban master planning in Asia, Europe and North America.
Chipperfield fully considers the building's permanent impact on the environment and history, embraces what is present, designs and intervenes in a dialogue with time and place, and adopts and updates the local architectural language of each site.
