Architect – David Chipperfield
Sir David Alan Chipperfield is an English architect, born in London in 1953. Chipperfield graduated from the Kingston School of Art in London in 1976. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London. He has worked with many celebrated architects: Douglas Stephen, Norman Foster, and Richard Rogers. He established David Chipperfield Architects, in 1985. The firm has offices in London, Berlin, Milan, and Shanghai.
“Rowan Moore, the architecture critic of The Guardian of London, described his work as serious, solid, not flamboyant or radical, but comfortable with the history and culture of its setting. “He deals in dignity, in gravitas, in memory and in art.”
River and Rowing Museum
1997, Henley on Thames, UK
Americas Cup Building
2006, Valencia, Spain
Des Moines Public Library
2006, Des Moines, Iowa
Museum of Modern Literature
2006, Marbach, Germany
Neues Museum
2009, Berlin, Germany
City of Justice
2011, Barcelona, Spain
The Hopworth Wakefield
2011, Wakefield, UK
Turner Contemporary
2011, Margate, Ken, UK
Museo Jumex
2013, Mexico City, Mexico
Saint Louis Art Museum
2013, Saint Louis, Missouri