Chipperfield, David

Four London Architects: Chipperfield, Mather, Parry, Stanton, and Williams

The four emerging architectural practices documented in this book are representative of the current vital building activity in London. They share the aims for an architecture that is contextual, solid, and rich in the use of materials. At the same time, their work acknowledges the precedents set by Hormen Foster, Richard Rogers, and James Stirling as well as the canonical work of early modern architecture.

David Chipperfield's shop interiors show a reworking of Corbusian themes with Miesian materials that results in a more lyrical evocation of everyday processes. In his School of Education for the University of East Anglia, Rick Mather has in turn reconfigured Corbusian forms with the typological research of Alvar Aalto.

Eric Parry's buildings and projects merge literary narrative with a sense of the discourse of architectural history as demonstrated in several artist studio projects. Alan Stanton and Paul Williams also reveal their considerable experience in matching programmatic narrative to architectural forms in their designs for the Rodin, Gothic, and Romanesque exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery. Distributed for the 9H Gallery.

DAVID CHIPPERFIELD 1991-2006 (El Croquis 87 + 120)

Some fifteen years of architectural production by David Chipperfield have been brought together in this double edition of El Croquis, which combines the earlier numbers 87 and 120. A total of 53 projects are examined, accompanied by plans, elevations, full page photographs and introductory texts. Also includes two interviews with Chipperfield and an essay by Aaron Betsky.

David Chipperfield

Of the new generation of architects practicing today in Britain under the rubric “neo-minimalists,” none has a higher critical reputation than David Chipperfield. As his fame and commissions have grown worldwide, Chipperfield now find himself in the circle of elite architects, including Tadao Ando and Peter Zumthor, whose reputations have been built on an architecture of spare sensuousness.
Chipperfield’s London-based practice has recently garnered a large number of prestigious projects, among them the reconstruction of the Neues Museum and master plan of the Museum Island in Berlin. His River and Rowing museum on the Thames has been hailed as “a minor masterpiece, a match of modern manners and time-honored materials” and won the Building of the Year Award from the Royal Fine Art Commission.
The projects covered in this large-format, beautifully produced book include: airframe furniture; BFI Film Centre, London; the Figge Arts Center in Davenport, Illinois; the Royal Collections Museum in Madrid; the Toyota Auto building in Kyoto; and the San Michele Cemetery in Venice, among many others. Stunning photographs, and Chipperfield’s preparatory sketches and countless drawings illustrate this exquisite work.

David Chipperfield: Zusammenspiel: Ernsting Service Center

The peaceful monolithic language of Chipperfield's architecture is evidenced in his design for the third and final building in a complex for the German clothing retailer Ernsting. Chipperfield's building stands on a greenfield site in the small town of Coesfeld-Lette, just west of Mnster; its companions are two distribution centers built in the late 1990s by Fabio Reinhardt and Bruno Reichlin with Santiago Calatrava, and by Shilling Architects. Chipperfield's structure completes the Ernsting compound and provides office space for business and retail managers as well as a Research & Development department. Christian Richters' and Edmund Sumner's photographs of Chipperfield's architecture reveal its harmonious relationship with the organic curves of Peter Wirtz's landscape design, while Jay Wolke's photographic studies of the workplace illustrate the highly successful collaboration between client and architect that created a freedom-filled place for Ernsting's employees to think and work.

2G: David Chipperfield Recent Work (2G: International Architecture Review)

David Chipperfield Theoretical Practice

David Chipperfield : obra reciente

David Chipperfield: Architectural Works 1990-2002

David Chipperfield worked for both Richard Rogers and Foster Associates before establishing his own practice in 1984. Often erroneously thought of as a minimalist architect, he has become one of the most conceptionally complex architects working today, thanks to the diversity and depth of his realized projects. Amongst his highly acclaimed projects are the River & Rowing Museum which was his first major commission in England, the Knight House, or the masterplan for the Museum Island in Berlin. More recently his projects include the Villa in Berlin-Schöneberg and the elegant office building in Düsseldorf. Chipperfield is also active in Milan, Venice, Madrid, the USA, and Japan. Beautifully designed by Quentin Newark this book presents with over 60 projects Chipperfield´s complete oeuvre. An essay focuses on his creative process and the architect's considerations on the architectonic development over the last decades. Jonathan Keates and Kenneth Frampton analyse key aspects of Chipperfield´s architecture.