The English architect David Chipperfield was born in London in the UK in 1953. He graduated from the Architectural Association in London and, from 1978 to 1984, worked with Douglas Stephen, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster.
In 1984, Chipperfield set up his own practice in London and, just three years later, opened another office in Berlin in Germany. Offices in Milan in Italy and in Shanghai in China have since been added. More than 130 people work in these offices, and together with them Chipperfield has won more than 40 national and international competitions and received a similar number of international awards.
Chipperfield's designs include the Figge Art Museum in Davenport in the USA, the award-winning River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames in the UK and the Literaturmuseum der Moderne, part of the German Literature Archive in Marbach in Germany. His buildings can be found all over the world, most of them in Japan and Germany.
In 1997, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation commissioned Chipperfield to develop a master plan for Berlin's Museum Island and the reconstruction of the Neues Museum. He also designed the James Simon Gallery, which opened on Berlin's Museum Island in 2019.
Alongside his work as an architect, Chipperfield also designs products for renowned manufacturers such as Alessi. He has also taught at several universities: he was a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and has taught at Harvard University, the University of Graz and the University of Naples, among others, as well as being a visiting professor at the University of the Arts London. He has also held the Mies van der Rohe Chair at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura in Barcelona in Spain.
