David Chipperfield Architects
London, Great Britain / Milan, Italy

David Chipperfield (London, 1953) is one of the most committed English architects: after working with Richard Rogers and Norman Foster, in 1984 he founded his own studio in London, whose branches were opened in Berlin, Milan and Shanghai.
He had designed works in several European countries, the United States, China and Japan: among his museum-design experience are the River and Rowing Museum (Henley-on-Thames, 1989-1997), the Figge Art Museum (Davenport, 1999-2005), the Museum of Modern Literature (Marbach-am-Neckar, 2002-2006), the Liangzhu Culture Museum (Hangzhou, 2003-2007), the extension of the Anchorage Museum (2003-2009), the Folkwang Museum (Essen, 2007-2010) and the reconstruction of the Neues Museum (Berlin, 1997-2009), definitely his most demanding experience.
His projects are distinguished by the essential quality of the language, that reinterprets the formal heritage of rationalism, by their elegance and attention to detail, by the use of few but high quality materials, with solutions ranging from sober geometric abstraction to the revival of proportions, forms and compositions inspired by classicism.