Just Announced, Architect David Chipperfield Is the Pritzker Prize Winner of 2023. Here’s a Look at His More Standout Structures

David Chipperfield, the British architect known for his contextual structures that blend into their surroundings, has been named the latest laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the highest honor in architecture.

Eschewing a signature style, David Chipperfield founded his eponymous architecture firm in London in 1985. Since then he has built projects around the world, ranging from monumental museums—his specialty—and corporate headquarters to smaller residences and updates to historic spaces.

The Pritzker Prize jury’s citation celebrated Chipperfield’s “commitment to an architecture of understated but transformative civic presence.” This can be seen in many of his museum projects. The Turner Contemporary in England is a jolt of modern architecture along the seaside boardwalk; Museo Jumex in Mexico City is a jagged chunk of stone that seems to take its cues from nearby pyramids; the 16th-century buildings lining Piazza San Marco in Venice are not overwhelmed with modern advances; the Neues Museum in Berlin—which houses the famed Bust of Nefertiti—is a classic reimagining of the mid-1800s institution that honors its history; and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s landmark Neue Nationalgalerie is a respectful update of the Modernist’s original vision.

Here are a few of Chipperfield’s more standout architectural achievements…

 

Turner Contemporary
Margate, England

 

Royal Academy of Arts
London, England

 

St. Louis Art Museum
St. Louis, Missouri

 

The Hepworth Wakefield
Wakefield, England

 

River and Rowing Museum
Henley-on-Thames, England

 

Procuratie Vecchie
Venice, Italy

 

The Neues Museum
Berlin, Germany

 

Museo Jumex
Mexico City, Mexico

 

Morland Mixité Capitale
Paris, France

 

James Simon Galerie
Berlin, Germany

 

Inagawa Cemetery
Inagawa, Japan

 

BBC Scotland Headquarters
Glasgow, Scotland

 

Amorepacific Headquarters
Seoul, South Korea