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Award Winning Author, Harvard Business School Professor and Keynote Speaker on Globalization and Digital Transformation
Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts awardee. Speaker David Chipperfield has completed a variety of architectural projects and was knighted in the United Kingdom for his architecture contributions. Organizations book David Chipperfield for his knowledge in architecture and design.
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Speaker David Chipperfield attended both the Architectural Association School of Architecture and the Kingston School of Art in London to complete his architecture studies. Upon his graduation, David worked at the practices of Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, and Douglas Stephen.
He then opened his London practice in 1985, creating three more offices as time went by. All four offices have similar architectural objectives. The offices also drive collaborative project creation, and the discovery of architectural, social, and intellectual solutions.
David Chipperfield Architects has completed a variety of projects all around the world. These projects include commercial, residential, cultural, and educational buildings and urban masterplans, and civic projects. International recognition for the work includes the Mies van der Rohe Prize, the RIBA Stirling Prize for The Museum of Modern Literature, and the Deutscher Architekturpreis for Berlin’s Neues Museum.
David Chipperfield has completed a variety of projects. Such projects include an MBA building for the HEC Paris School of Management, as well as a redevelopment of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Aside from his architectural work, speaker David Chipperfield has taught students all around the world. From 1995 to 2001, he served at the Staatliche Akademie für Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart as Professor of Architecture.
In 2011, he worked at Yale University as Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor of Architectural Design. Both Kingston University and the University of Kent have awarded him honorary doctorates. David organized the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2012; he was a Mentor for Architecture for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative between 2016 and 2017.
In 2020, he was Guest Editor of the architecture and design magazine Domus. David also launched Fundación RIA in 2017. This was a private, non-profit organization in Spain, which was responsible for research and sustainable development.
Chipperfield has received the Praemium Imperiale, the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, the Wolf Foundation Prize in the Arts, the Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal, and the Grand DAI Award for Building Culture. He also received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2010. During that same year, David was knighted in the United Kingdom for his architecture contributions. In 2021, he became a Order of the Companions of Honour’s member.
In this lecture, the esteemed architect and speaker David Chipperfield will discuss the distinctive concepts of architecture and design that make one building stand out or be recognized over another. Chipperfield will draw from his experience as an award-winning architect and will provide the unique keys to his work. He will share his working methodologies and explain how his offices in London, Berlin, Shanghai, and Milan collaborate effectively.