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David Chipperfield

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Sir David Alan Chipperfield, , (born 18 December 1953) is a British architect. He established David Chipperfield Architects in 1985, which grew into a global architectural practice with offices in London, Berlin, Milan, Shanghai, and Santiago de Compostela. In 2023, he won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered to be the most prestigious award in architecture. His major completed works include the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire; the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach, Germany; the Des Moines Public Library in Iowa; the Neues Museum and its adjoining James Simon Gallery, Berlin; The Hepworth Wakefield gallery in Wakefield, West Yorkshire; the Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri; and the Museo Jumex in Mexico City. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Chipperfield is the 183rd most popular architect (down from 162nd in 2019), the 1,683rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,267th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, David Chipperfield ranks 183 out of 518. Before him are Muhammad V of Granada, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Kisho Kurokawa, Pietro Lombardo, Christian de Portzamparc, and Günter Behnisch. After him are John Vanbrugh, Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, Jacobus Oud, Robert Koldewey, Michael Ventris, and Hans Poelzig.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, David Chipperfield ranks 112. Before him are Reinhard Marx, Nan Goldin, Madhav Kumar Nepal, Frances Conroy, William Petersen, and Đorđe Balašević. After him are Jeb Bush, Tito Jackson, Eleonora Giorgi, Lloyd Austin, Riccardo Chailly, and Françoise Bettencourt Meyers.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Chipperfield ranks 1,683 out of 8,785. Before him are Robert Watson-Watt (1892), Geoff Hurst (1941), Thomas Lipton (1848), Arthur Machen (1863), Ealhswith (852), and Edward Wilson (1872). After him are Emilia Clarke (1986), Zara Tindall (1981), Orlando Gibbons (1583), Penda of Mercia (606), John Gurdon (1933), and Paddy Roy Bates (1921).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, David Chipperfield ranks 11. Before him are George Gilbert Scott (1811), Inigo Jones (1573), James Stirling (1926), Ebenezer Howard (1850), Robert Adam (1728), and William Burges (1827). After him are John Vanbrugh (1664), Michael Ventris (1922), Nora Stanton Barney (1883), John Nash (1752), Joseph Paxton (1803), and Archibald Leitch (1865).

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