After a decade of experimental, diverse winners, David Chipperfield feels like a safe choice.
David Chipperfield at the James Simon Gallery, a visitors’ center he designed with access to the adjacent Pergamon and Neues Museums in Berlin.On Tuesday, the Pritzker Prize — architecture’s highest honor — was awarded to the British architect. A decade ago, this selection would not have come as a surprise. After all, Chipperfield is a committed and sensitive modernist whose work has been widely celebrated for many years.
However, given the Pritzker’s recent activist trajectory, his selection is unexpected. In 2022, the prize selected Francis Kéré, the Burkina Faso–born, German-based architect renowned for his focus on sustainability, vernacular construction techniques, and locally sourced materials, all of which examines the project of architecture in places and times of scarcity.
One should always look at awards like the Pritzker with a certain skepticism because they continue to foster the myth that architecture is the solo pursuit of a handful of geniuses rather than a multibillion-dollar enterprise in which millions of nameless, often underpaid practitioners power the creative engine and do the brute labor of getting it done. But I would hesitate to dismiss the institution altogether.
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