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    David Chipperfield
    David Chipperfield

    David Chipperfield

    Sir David Alan Chipperfield was born in 1953 in London. Chipperfield is a British architect with offices in London, Berlin, Milan and Shanghai.

    Chipperfield is known as an uncompromising architect with a modern approach to design. His work is based on a philosophical approach rather than a house style.

    Chipperfield studied architecture at Kingston Polytechnic and graduated in 1976. After college, he worked for Douglas Stephen, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster. In 1984, Chipperfield opened his own practice, David Chipperfield Architects. The firm employs more than 250 people from 15 different countries working in Europe, America and China.

    In the year 2000, Chipperfield was the English delegate at the Venice Biennale of Architecture. In 2004 he was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his track record in architecture and what he Honorary Member of the Florence Academy of Art and Design.

    David Chipperfield has taught extensively in various schools in different countries, his classes are mostly about working in practice. Chipperfield was also the only British architect on the apron list for designing Tate Modern. He also designed the award-winning River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames where he used oak, concrete and glass. Many of his buildings realized in Japan and Germany.

    He has also worked extensively in the United States, where in 2005 he put the finishing touches on the Figge Art Museum in Davenport in the state of Iowa. Chipperfield was also the architect who undertook the restoration of bombed-out the Neues Museum in Berlin in 2009.