The 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate.
David Chipperfield is the newly awarded Pritzker winner!
David Chipperfield is the newly awarded Pritzker winner!
“I am so overwhelmed to receive this extraordinary honour and to be associated with the previous recipients who have all given so much inspiration to the profession,” says David Chipperfield. “I take this award as an encouragement to continue to direct my attention not only to the substance of architecture and its meaning but also to the contribution that we can make as architects to address the existential challenges of climate change and societal inequality. We know that, as architects, we can have a more prominent and engaged role in creating not only a more beautiful world but a fairer and more sustainable one too. We must rise to this challenge and help inspire the next generation to embrace this responsibility with vision and courage.”
David Chipperfield, an architect whose architectural practice is based in London and Berlin, is the recipient of the 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize. David Chipperfield is the 52nd Laureate of the Pritzker Prize, succeeding Francis Kéré. The career of David Chipperfield is marked by a long term, rigour and consistency in a body of work that has seamlessly integrated and balanced both terms of that equation.
“This commitment to an architecture of understated but transformative civic presence and the definition—even through private commissions—of the public realm, is done always with austerity, avoiding unnecessary moves and steering clear of trends and fashions, all of which is a most relevant message to our contemporary society. Such a capacity to distill and perform meditated design operations is a dimension of sustainability that has not been obvious in recent years: sustainability as pertinence, not only eliminates the superfluous but is also the first step to creating structures able to last, physically and culturally.”
According to the 2023 Jury Citation.
River and Rowing Museum, photograph courtesy of Richard Bryant / Arcaid
The last awardees were.-
2022 FRANCIS KÉRÉ
2021 ANNE LACATON AND JEAN-PHILIPPE VASSAL
2020 YVONNE FARRELL AND SHELLEY MCNAMARA
2019 ARATA ISOZAKI
2018 BALKRISHNA DOSHI
2017 RAFAEL ARANDA, CARME PIGEM AND RAMÓN VILALTA
2016 ALEJANDRO ARAVENA
2015 FREI OTTO
2014 SHIGERU BAN
2013 TOYO ITO
2012 WANG SHU
2011 SOUTO DE MOURA
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2021 ANNE LACATON AND JEAN-PHILIPPE VASSAL
2020 YVONNE FARRELL AND SHELLEY MCNAMARA
2019 ARATA ISOZAKI
2018 BALKRISHNA DOSHI
2017 RAFAEL ARANDA, CARME PIGEM AND RAMÓN VILALTA
2016 ALEJANDRO ARAVENA
2015 FREI OTTO
2014 SHIGERU BAN
2013 TOYO ITO
2012 WANG SHU
2011 SOUTO DE MOURA
.../...
The award consists of USD 100,000 (equivalent to €93,631.50) and a bronze medallion with the inscription of "firmness, commodity, and delight", in reference to the classic Vitruve motto "firmitas, utilitas, venustas".
The prize takes its name from the Pritzker family, whose international business interests are headquartered in Chicago. Their name is synonymous with Hyatt Hotels, located throughout the world. The Pritzkers have long been known for their support of educational, scientific, medical, and cultural activities. Jay A. Pritzker, (1922-1999), founded the prize with his wife, Cindy. His eldest son, Thomas J. Pritzker, the current president of The Hyatt Foundation, explains, "As native Chicagoans, it’s not surprising that our family was keenly aware of architecture, living in the birthplace of the skyscraper, a city filled with buildings designed by architectural legends such as Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and many others."
2023 JURY
This year there are no changes in the jury. The independent jury of experts ranges each year from five to nine members. Jury members, which have the mission of selecting the laureate each year, serve for multiple years to assure a balance between past and new members. The jury members are selected for their high recognition in their own fields of architecture, business, education, publishing, and culture. No members of the Pritzker family or outside observers are present during jury deliberations, which usually take place during the first months of the calendar year.
The prize takes its name from the Pritzker family, whose international business interests are headquartered in Chicago. Their name is synonymous with Hyatt Hotels, located throughout the world. The Pritzkers have long been known for their support of educational, scientific, medical, and cultural activities. Jay A. Pritzker, (1922-1999), founded the prize with his wife, Cindy. His eldest son, Thomas J. Pritzker, the current president of The Hyatt Foundation, explains, "As native Chicagoans, it’s not surprising that our family was keenly aware of architecture, living in the birthplace of the skyscraper, a city filled with buildings designed by architectural legends such as Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and many others."
2023 JURY
This year there are no changes in the jury. The independent jury of experts ranges each year from five to nine members. Jury members, which have the mission of selecting the laureate each year, serve for multiple years to assure a balance between past and new members. The jury members are selected for their high recognition in their own fields of architecture, business, education, publishing, and culture. No members of the Pritzker family or outside observers are present during jury deliberations, which usually take place during the first months of the calendar year.
Alejandro Aravena, 2020-present (Chair 2021-present) - 2016 Pritzker Laureate
Barry Bergdoll, 2019-present
Deborah Berke, 2019-present
Stephen Breyer, 2012-present
André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, 2017-present
Kazuyo Sejima, 2017-present - 2010 Pritzker Laureate
Benedetta Tagliabue, 2014-present
Wang Shu, 2017-present - 2012 Pritzker Laureate
Manuela Lucá-Dazio, 2020-present (Executive Director)
Barry Bergdoll, 2019-present
Deborah Berke, 2019-present
Stephen Breyer, 2012-present
André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, 2017-present
Kazuyo Sejima, 2017-present - 2010 Pritzker Laureate
Benedetta Tagliabue, 2014-present
Wang Shu, 2017-present - 2012 Pritzker Laureate
Manuela Lucá-Dazio, 2020-present (Executive Director)
