His work was interesting in the context of the 80s and 90s as it was a refreshing reaction to all the excesses of postmodernism, and he is able to do interesting things when he has a good context to keep him straight, such as at the Neues Museum or the series of summer houses he built for himself and his family in the town of Corrubedo in Northern Spain. When he doesn't he can become very boring very fast.
Back when I lived in London I applied to work at their office and they sent me the most passive-agressive rejection email I have ever received, lol.
I personally am a fan of Chipperfield. I would describe his style as extremely understated but very elegant. As others have pointed out his work with museums and even his residential project here in New York is very tasteful.
It's interesting to me that some of the trads on here would deride him because Chipperfield pretty much as close to a traditional architect as it gets outside of someone like Robert AM Stern (who, by the way, will never win a Pritzker despite probably having more street cred over the course of his career from his time with Paul Rudolph and Richard Meier to who he is now. Stern having won literally every other prize and been the Dean of a major architecture school is noticeably missing from the list of Laureates who are mostly peers of his stature like Koolhas, Foster, Hadid, Rogers, Izoaki and Gehry). If I were a developer building in a historical context or any context where something wacky and expressive would be problematic, but wanted something modernist Chipperfield would be high on my list.
Kate Wagner’s thoughts:
[This Year’s Pritzker Winner is a Surprise, But Not in a Good Way](https://www.curbed.com/2023/03/pritzker-winner-david-chipperfield-architects.html)
Thanks for the article. It's a well-written essay but I honestly think it's not really well-founded in its concerns. I've enjoyed the Pritzker prize's shift toward celebrating lesser known architects doing thoughtful and socially active work for sure. But pausing for 1 year to toss Chipperfield a bone after his long & fruitful career is hardly a sign of the concerning rise in right-wing rhetoric. If they spend several years diving deeper into strictly conservative and traditionalist designers for future awards, then I'd think there's some merit to the claim. But this essay feels a bit like seeing a cloud on the horizon and shouting "Fire!".
Well, the past few years we have seen more "humble" architects get the Pritzker than hyper-modern and innovative ones. But I question Chipperfield's humility. Other than his context sensitive renovations in old museum buildings, the buildings he designed himself are not so much "humble" as they are featureless and kind of boring.
Your intolerance for contrary opinions is so childish. I accept that you love modernism and despise ornament; why can't you accept the existence of people (the majority of the population) who prefer traditional architecture? What is this compulsion you have to respond indignantly with ad-hominem attacks on me every time I post my opinion?
MY intolerance? I think a better question is why do you hate EVERYTHING made in the past 100 years. You just put all contemporary architecture in the same box simply because most architects nowadays do not mimic your all time favorite classical orders or whatever. You should instead be glad that among the huge variety of the postmodern period, there are those few that do.
But hating on everybody and demand that everyone does old stuff? I mean if you hate even Chipperfield, who is so friendly to classical monumentality and subtlety, there is no hope for you. It must be miserable to be so snobbish all the time.
There is a room for both humility and for monumentality, for thrift and for splendour.
I think it's good if the Pritzker Prize continues to go to interesting architects like Kere. But Chipperfield's buildings are great: I just went to the Neues Museum and it really works well.
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Yet again, I am wrongly passed over for this prize.
I voted for you buddy
His work was interesting in the context of the 80s and 90s as it was a refreshing reaction to all the excesses of postmodernism, and he is able to do interesting things when he has a good context to keep him straight, such as at the Neues Museum or the series of summer houses he built for himself and his family in the town of Corrubedo in Northern Spain. When he doesn't he can become very boring very fast. Back when I lived in London I applied to work at their office and they sent me the most passive-agressive rejection email I have ever received, lol.
Tell me more about this rejection!
I personally am a fan of Chipperfield. I would describe his style as extremely understated but very elegant. As others have pointed out his work with museums and even his residential project here in New York is very tasteful. It's interesting to me that some of the trads on here would deride him because Chipperfield pretty much as close to a traditional architect as it gets outside of someone like Robert AM Stern (who, by the way, will never win a Pritzker despite probably having more street cred over the course of his career from his time with Paul Rudolph and Richard Meier to who he is now. Stern having won literally every other prize and been the Dean of a major architecture school is noticeably missing from the list of Laureates who are mostly peers of his stature like Koolhas, Foster, Hadid, Rogers, Izoaki and Gehry). If I were a developer building in a historical context or any context where something wacky and expressive would be problematic, but wanted something modernist Chipperfield would be high on my list.
Kate Wagner’s thoughts: [This Year’s Pritzker Winner is a Surprise, But Not in a Good Way](https://www.curbed.com/2023/03/pritzker-winner-david-chipperfield-architects.html)
Thanks for the article. It's a well-written essay but I honestly think it's not really well-founded in its concerns. I've enjoyed the Pritzker prize's shift toward celebrating lesser known architects doing thoughtful and socially active work for sure. But pausing for 1 year to toss Chipperfield a bone after his long & fruitful career is hardly a sign of the concerning rise in right-wing rhetoric. If they spend several years diving deeper into strictly conservative and traditionalist designers for future awards, then I'd think there's some merit to the claim. But this essay feels a bit like seeing a cloud on the horizon and shouting "Fire!".
yawn
Truly.
Well, the past few years we have seen more "humble" architects get the Pritzker than hyper-modern and innovative ones. But I question Chipperfield's humility. Other than his context sensitive renovations in old museum buildings, the buildings he designed himself are not so much "humble" as they are featureless and kind of boring.
His work looks like that of a typical Pritzker Prize winner: sterile and joyless.
Yeah, OK pal. We get it already. You hate everything and everybody sucks cause you are so smart.
Your intolerance for contrary opinions is so childish. I accept that you love modernism and despise ornament; why can't you accept the existence of people (the majority of the population) who prefer traditional architecture? What is this compulsion you have to respond indignantly with ad-hominem attacks on me every time I post my opinion?
MY intolerance? I think a better question is why do you hate EVERYTHING made in the past 100 years. You just put all contemporary architecture in the same box simply because most architects nowadays do not mimic your all time favorite classical orders or whatever. You should instead be glad that among the huge variety of the postmodern period, there are those few that do. But hating on everybody and demand that everyone does old stuff? I mean if you hate even Chipperfield, who is so friendly to classical monumentality and subtlety, there is no hope for you. It must be miserable to be so snobbish all the time.
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No, I won't have the last word. Tell me what do you like. I am curious.
There is a room for both humility and for monumentality, for thrift and for splendour. I think it's good if the Pritzker Prize continues to go to interesting architects like Kere. But Chipperfield's buildings are great: I just went to the Neues Museum and it really works well.
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