David Chipperfield. Born in London in 1953, he studied at the Architectural Association and worked with Douglas Stephen, Richard Rogers, and Norman Foster before setting up his own practice in 1984. Today he has offices in London, Berlin, and Milan, and a team of over 120 persons working on projects in Europe, the United States, and China.

Chipperfield has taught in Europe and the United States and lectured in major universities and institutions. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of the Arts London (originally the London Institute), and in 2001 he held the Mies van der Rohe Chair at Barcelona’s School of Architecture. Among the numerous honors he has received are the 1999 Tessenow Gold Medal, the CCCB’s 2004 European Prize for Urban Public Space for his remodelling of the access to the Paseo del Óvalo thoroughfare in Teruel, and a 2004 RIBA award for his studio for Antony Gormley. That same year he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to architecture.

Among his most recent works are the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa; the Central Public Library of Des Moines, Iowa; the reconstruction of the Neues Museum in Berlin; the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach; and the expansion of the Anchorage Museum in Alaska. In Spain, among other things, he has built the ‘Veles and Vents’ pavilion for the America’s Cup and the City of Justice in Barcelona.