David Chipperfield

Born 1953 · British · 12 buildings on the wall

David Chipperfield (born 1953) is a British architect known for restrained museums and public buildings and for careful work with historic ones. Born in London, he worked in the offices of Douglas Stephen, Norman Foster and Richard Rogers before founding David Chipperfield Architects in 1985. He has been knighted for services to architecture and won the Pritzker Prize in 2023.

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From 1997 to 2009 he and Julian Harrap rebuilt and restored the Neues Museum in Berlin, largely destroyed in the Second World War. Next to it he added the James Simon Gallery (2019), a gateway to Museum Island whose design draws on the island's building history. The Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach am Neckar (2006) won the Stirling Prize in 2007. In England, The Hepworth Wakefield (2011) is a cluster of ten trapezoid blocks clad in pigmented concrete cast on site, the first of its kind in the UK, with upper galleries lit by large windows in the pitched roofs. Turner Contemporary (2011) stands beside the beach at Margate. David Chipperfield's projects are studied for proportion, material and respect for what is already there.

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