Why did David Chipperfield win the Pritzker Prize 2023

The Pritzker Prize for the year 2023 was just announced and the winner is Sir David Chipperfield. But why was he chosen, what makes him worthy of one of the highest awards in architecture. The answer perhaps, plain and simple, lies in his approach to design. Today in this video we will be looking at the story of a man, for whom architecture and its purpose is probably more important than his own artistic ambitions. In trying to understand why exactly he won the award, we might just uncover what the role of an architect is, or should be in the 21st century. So lets dive deeper into the life of the Pritzker winner for 2023 Sir David Chipperfiled.
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[@ArqVictorCastedo]

It really seems like a well-deserved award. I love how his architecture stands out but at the same time integrates with its surroundings.

[@charlesmuhanguzi3250]

He's not a good architect. The reasons why his architect carries Merit are too far fetched. You need to make up words to validate a reason why he should be seen as a best architect in the world. And he doesn't pay fair employees fair wages.

[@dove3MC]

when the only checkbox is “stands out”

[@sukhrajssehgal7210]

"The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it." No pretensions, no jargon. The statement is simply beautiful like his work.

[@kchiu9080]

I think "a timeless dialogue to its context" would be a greate way to describe David Chipperfield's body of work. The award is well deserved.

[@lolollolol5654]

the museum stairs are really his best work in my opinion - breathtaking

[@eminayduran3510]

I had been waiting for that decision almost 10 years. Such a good result. Congratulations 🎉

[@dhanraj9260]

We can explore the world, with your creations. Thanks for guiding us!

[@blessedarch]

[@c_onyedinma]

It's your story telling for me. Thank you for putting this together. ❤

[@lukekvas]

The Neues Museum in Berlin is a space where you feel spiritually and emotionally connected with history. Architecture at its best. Well deserved.

[@luarchitect-iu2hq]

Congratulations to a very thoughtful and talented Architect!

[@vrahomes]

Beautifully explained!

[@francisssempijja244]

Such a compelling video, well put together. Thank you @BlessedArch

[@d4django]

Thank you for sharing

[@christophermoody1448]

Nice! Thanks for sharing.

[@mjc9388]

His simplicity is complex his silence is loud it engages your senses and it keeps your mind busy And this is from someone who saw one of his projects in a magazine years ago Wondering what it may feel like to physically be in one Congrats

[@tasneemmazhar5550]

Hello..I have been following your videos for long. But I do wish I had discovered you during my graduation years. I love the content. Love your calm voice. Just love it. Keep doing the good work

[@maxwellwright5292]

Now, te reason for what he has got the prize is clear: the beauty and the simplicity if his projects adapted their places and use ✨✨ Thanks for the video ! ❤️

[@marcvanschuylenbergh6213]

very nice architecture in his simplicity....

[@juanstrejo9730]

Congrats!!!, from Honduras.

[@Nitin_Killawala]

Very crisp narration on the great works of David C…. Delighted to see the video and reminded me that I visited some of his projects….

[@maritzeg]

classical beauty architecture... great video! :)

[@jamesrafael541]

A very inspiring story of how he won the prestigious award. Very well deserved. I was amazed by how he emphasized that it is unnecessary to stick to a specific style or materials, as long as the end user and the built environment are well blended.

[@ceooflonelinessinc.267]

This man is one of the few architects I like

[@osvaldolopez2377]

FELICITACIONES X DAVID Y A VOS X LOS VIDEOS GRACIAS OSVALDO FORCINITI BS AS ARGENTINA

[@saranbhatia8809]

Good content!

[@rtuna6172]

I always admire the way he thinks, and you have expressed it well, thank you. His own sketches and hand drawings might also be added to show his approach to daylight.

[@archpartilha3425]

TOP Video...

[@luchoazulreyes6082]

muy bueno su contenido, me ha gustado mucho, gracias por compartir. saludos desde argentina

[@pravallikak8260]

You should be awarded for explaining it so well buddy🎉 ❤@blessedarch.

[@blessedarch]

Thank you so much 😀

[@sonalisignapurkar6906]

Great efforts on the video

[@blessedarch]

Thank you 😀

[@fritz4345]

I wasn't really aware of him until I had the chance to see the Neues Museum in Berlin last year. Excellent work.

[@LDVTennis]

Chipperfield is a philosopher-architect. He's a more prolific, more commercial version of Zumthor. He was my 1B choice this year. 1A was Fujimoto.

[@manojmanu1301]

The best❤

[@melaniamonicacraciun9900]

A never ending inspiration indeed friends

[@manuelmuller3105]

He’s one of the very few modernist architects that I like.

[@toddelliott3239]

“The extent to which you have a design style, is the extent to which you have not solved the design problem.” -Charles Eames

[@rschloch]

He has a nice project under construction in Hamburg; Elbtower.

[@fatimaabubakar1755]

Tears in my eyes

[@litoboy5]

Cool

[@cho1a-rei]

"There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it." - David Chipperfield

[@Chinoiserie9839]

I am looking forward to Kengo Kuma winning in the future.

[@felixmuller8629]

great video, im totally on your side with David :) Konstruktiv critique: maybe the music can be a bit more silent, so you can be better audible :)

[@nikitasanjaythorave]

Why there are soo less views to such beautiful and important video!!!!!..... Nice video ✨🥰

[@blessedarch]

Thank you

[@peterk4134]

I remember what Rogers once said about SPACE = the Quality of Place. Chipperfield’s has it. For young graduates, go work for architects like Piano, Chipperfield, and learn how to put elements together. Foster once told me of the challenge of visualizing and creating/drawing staircases . As for Gehry, the Stuff he puts up called architecture is so expensive to maintain , the clients seem to end up eventually suing the arrogant bugger.

[@corbinaustin2899]

Thought this video was about that MAgician

[@keleniengaluafe2600]

❤❤❤❤

[@sunahihoga6199]

aapke video ka hi intezaar tha

[@blessedarch]

[@pgalerie5322]

Congratulations. The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin looked before his alteration stronger, and the Kunstmuseum in Zürich, where I live next to it, appears like headquarters of an insurance. I prefer generally architcture with more character and more boldness. But maybe that all-slick architecture fits to 2023.

[@eddymendoza4699]

hope wolf d prix get the prize some day

[@lolollolol5654]

great video. pritzker is not one of the highest - it is THE highest prize, nothing above it

[@archidot824]

Plz make next video 30'x40'

[@blessedarch]

How about I just invite Eric for an interview, we might be able to understand his process and his journey better

[@OharaMariJ]

3:59 why does it sound like he was pointing at someone hahahahah like in paris

[@abbasramadan468]

i expected David to win it 2 years ago tbh. Him, Eisenman and Tshumi were yet to win it...

[@suchasause6074]

7:04

[@jawaadissoop2920]

How many more weedoes will you make?

[@rajmanglambhalodia]

But big deserve more

[@blessedarch]

Bjarke will also win it one day, idk if he deserved it more this year. But one day for sure.

[@rajmanglambhalodia]

@@blessedarch vm and Mountain Dwellings are his best project

[@SY-bj7pp]

Another, perfectly-safe selection, with ten yrs left in his career. Pritzker needs to rethink the purpose of the award. They'll be out of celeb-architects to give it to, soon.

[@Rm-mq2qg]

Ok the next is pawson, kuma or similar!!! Nice architecs but wheres holl, Eismant, prix,dider &scofidio ummm

[@Light-ul1kn]

This a true pritzker winner. Unlike zaha who made anything and didnt consider the context and her projects were absurdly expensive. Zaha never deserved the pritzker

[@raidjameel7513]

I dnt know of u n ur mind n imagination r fit or capable of value such great people. Zaha Hadeed was ahead of these others, at leat she is the only with math degree and Arctitecture degree. She is unique in every design she made. If u have inside u some hate or dislike to some people coz of race or color or whatever, learn to be fair n unbiosed in judging others. Gd luck 2u

[@javierpacheco8234]

You're gonna call me Ignorant, but I realized that they only prize that this pritzker prize gives to architects is on creations with the most hideous designs out there. I mean why I don't see pritzker prize for a traditional style or some style that is unique with Beauty, ones that are new. All this simplicity philosophy with today's architecture ideology is getting kinda boring, modern aesthetic gets boring.

[@jml732]

Ironically modernism isn't about not celebrating architecture as aesthetic, modernism is about functionality and economy. Honours for the aesthetics of modernist buildings shouldn't exist, perhaps modernist buildings should be rather honoured for the technical innovation.

[@milky8471]

Look up for Francis kéré. This guy deserver the nobel prize in my opinion. He did so much for his people in Africa

[@laskaralam9119]

Growing Population, Less time, Expensive Services... MODERN SIMPLE DESIGN

[@julioito6126]

Fashion is different then New and archtecture its about design, aesthetic comes after.

[@leomorales5224]

why never mention the mexican architects?

[@jml732]

Starchitecture isn't culture, it's just decadence and cliché.

[@sinuheguzman9404]

That award is just self-congratulatory and empty at its best, his work only look like oversize bland shoe boxes, if anything of his work looks nice it's because of the monumentality, but award winning????

[@bscottb8]

Give me a break. David Chipperfield is the most mediocre neoclassicist since Albert Speer.

[@HenryLeslieGraham]

good god this is what wins prizes?????? I've seen better designs on deviant art (of furries)

[@j.guerrero9037]

Muy bueno camarada

[@harunkaya06]

I don't think he is well deserved..