With this book David Chipperfield for the first time presents a comprehensive monograph illustrating 45 buildings, for which he developed the concept as well as the layout together with ingenious graphic artist John Morgan.

In the first part of the publication he states his 'confessions' as an architect. After an introduction to Chipperfield's work by Fulvio Irace he explains his convictions in chapters called 'Context", Building Form', 'Interiors', 'Private House' and 'Developing ideas'. The second part of the volume focusses on the most important 30 realized projects which were selected by the architect on more than 160 pages with numerous full and double page illustrations and texts for each project. In the last section the monograph also comprises other projects - built and unbuilt, offering a comprehensive overview of the output of the last 25 years. The last section covers almost all the projects, types and scales.

The book David Chipperfield Architects contains essays by David Chipperfield, Luis Fernández-Galiano, Fulvio Irace and Bernhard Schulz.


Sir David Alan Chipperfield CBE, RA, RDI, RIBA is one of Britains most lauded architects. Uncompromisingly modernist in outlook, his practice is driven by a consistent philosophical approach, rather than a house style. Chipperfield first made his reputation in Japan in the 1980s. Among his early projects in England that revealed his rigorous and elemental approach to design included a shop for Issey Miyake on Londons Sloane Street in 1983, and a house for the fashion photographer Nick Knight. Later, Chipperfield designed the award-winning River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames using green oak cladding, concrete and glass. Since then, Chipperfield has moved on to become one of the commanding figures in the design of cultural and civic buildings across Europe and in the United States. Chipperfield was the architect for the reconstruction of the destroyed Neues Museum in Berlin, which reopened in October 2009. In addition to the Neues Museum, Chipperfield was the architect behind Turner Contemporary in Margate.

With this book David Chipperfield for the first time presents a comprehensive monograph illustrating 45 buildings, for which he developed the concept as well as the layout together with ingenious graphic artist John Morgan.

In the first part of the publication he states his 'confessions' as an architect. After an introduction to Chipperfield's work by Fulvio Irace he explains his convictions in chapters called 'Context", Building Form', 'Interiors', 'Private House' and 'Developing ideas'. The second part of the volume focusses on the most important 30 realized projects which were selected by the architect on more than 160 pages with numerous full and double page illustrations and texts for each project. In the last section the monograph also comprises other projects - built and unbuilt, offering a comprehensive overview of the output of the last 25 years. The last section covers almost all the projects, types and scales.

The book David Chipperfield Architects contains essays by David Chipperfield, Luis Fernández-Galiano, Fulvio Irace and Bernhard Schulz.


Sir David Alan Chipperfield CBE, RA, RDI, RIBA is one of Britains most lauded architects. Uncompromisingly modernist in outlook, his practice is driven by a consistent philosophical approach, rather than a house style. Chipperfield first made his reputation in Japan in the 1980s. Among his early projects in England that revealed his rigorous and elemental approach to design included a shop for Issey Miyake on Londons Sloane Street in 1983, and a house for the fashion photographer Nick Knight. Later, Chipperfield designed the award-winning River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames using green oak cladding, concrete and glass. Since then, Chipperfield has moved on to become one of the commanding figures in the design of cultural and civic buildings across Europe and in the United States. Chipperfield was the architect for the reconstruction of the destroyed Neues Museum in Berlin, which reopened in October 2009. In addition to the Neues Museum, Chipperfield was the architect behind Turner Contemporary in Margate.