British architect David Chipperfield awarded Pritzker prize

Chipperfield described as an architect ‘radical in his restraint’ as he takes dwelling high business honour.

British architect David Chipperfield has been awarded the Pritzker Structure Prize — the sphere’s high award — for his understated however transformative designs.

The 69-year-old was honoured for “timeless trendy design that confronts local weather urgencies, transforms social relationships and reinvigorates cities,” the organisers mentioned in an announcement.

Chipperfield has labored on greater than 100 initiatives over 4 many years starting from cultural, civic and educational buildings, to city planning and residences.

“He’s a prolific architect who’s radical in his restraint,” the organisers mentioned in an announcement saying the 2023 winner, “demonstrating his reverence for historical past and tradition whereas honouring the preexisting constructed and pure environments.”

Chipperfield mentioned he was “so overwhelmed” to develop into the prize’s 52nd laureate.

“I take this award as an encouragement to proceed to direct my consideration not solely to the substance of structure and its which means but in addition to the contribution that we are able to make as architects to deal with the existential challenges of local weather change and societal inequality,” the assertion quoted him as saying.

Based mostly in London, with workplaces in 4 different international locations, Chipperfield has labored throughout Europe, Asia and the US.

He’s famend for renovations and reconstructions of previous buildings, updating them for the fashionable age whereas honouring their historical past and tradition, and preserving the pure atmosphere.

Amongst his greatest is a rebuild of the Neues Museum in Berlin, which was constructed within the nineteenth century and largely destroyed in World Struggle II, and the reinvention of a Sixteenth-century Venice landmark, the Procuratie Vecchie, which the Pritzker Prize organisers mentioned “redefined the civic skill of this constructing inside the coronary heart of the town to permit common entry for the primary time”.

In Asia, it cited Chipperfield’s headquarters for Amorepacific in Seoul, which it mentioned harmonised “the person and the collective, the personal and the general public, work and respite,” and the Inagawa Cemetery Chapel and Customer Centre in Hyogo, Japan, the place “the bodily and non secular coexist, with locations of solitude and gathering, for peace and looking for”.

Chipperfield was born in London and raised on a farm in Devon, in southwest England, the place he has mentioned a set of barns and outbuildings formed his early impressions of structure.

He based his structure agency in 1984.

The Pritzker Structure Prize was established in 1979. Winners obtain a $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion.

Earlier laureates embody IM Pei, Zaha Hadid and Shigeru Ban.

Final yr, Burkina Faso-born Diebedo Francis Kere grew to become the primary African winner of the prize.