The Netherlands’ Sikkens Prize 2015 Awarded to David Chipperfield
27/02/2015.
Sikkens Foundation
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On Sunday 29 March the British architect David Chipperfield will be presented with the Sikkens Prize. The Sikkens Prize is one of the oldest independent art prizes in the Netherlands. The prize was established in 1960 and previous winners include Gerrit Rietveld, Le Corbusier, Donald Judd, HEMA and Bridget Riley. All were recognized for their revolutionary use of colour in their work.
Fifth Avenue. Valentino New York Flagship Store. By David Chipperfield. Photograph © Santi Caleca.
City of Culture by David Chipperfield Architects. Photograph © Oskar Da Riz.
David Chipperfield, "Sticks and Stones", an Intervention, installation view. Photograph © David von Becker.
David Chipperfield. Nobel Center. Image © David Chipperfield Architects.
Detail façade. David Chipperfield. Nobel Center. Image © David Chipperfield Architects.
Outside view, Musée des Beaux-arts in Reims. Copyright David Chipperfield Architects.
Staircase Hall. ©Ute Zscharnt for David Chipperfield Architects.
David Chipperfield.
David Chipperfield is the 36th winner of the Sikkens Prize. One of the projects praised by the jury is the Neues Museum in Berlin.
According to the jury: ‘Chipperfield’s work on the Neues Museum in Berlin is a magnificent example of his way of working. Like no other he knows how to combine the old with the new. In his spatial compositions he achieves a delicate balance between colour, material end texture. Chipperfield uses the colours provided by the architectural context and the building materials in an unemphatic yet expressive way.’
Sikkens Foundation
The Sikkens Prize is awarded every two years by the Sikkens Foundation, an independent cultural foundation promoting social, cultural and scientific developments in society in which colour plays an important role. The Sikkens Foundation is financially supported by AkzoNobel and is partner of the Akzo Nobel Human Cities Initiative.
The Sikkens Foundation board: Hester Alberdingk Thijm, Bernard Colenbrander, Lennart Booij, Ruud Joosten, Annet Lekkerkerker, Niek Koppen, Kees Kuijken (treasurer), Dingeman Kuilman (chairman), Benno Tempel, Iris Lamers (secretary).
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David Chipperfield
Sir David Chipperfield CBE. AA Dipl., RIBA, RDI, Hon.FAIA, BDA, RA, Hon Doc (Kingston). David Chipperfield studied at Kingston School of Art and the Archtectural Association in London. After graduating he worked at the practices of Douglas Stephen, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster.
In 2004 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to architecture. in 2006 he was appointed Royal Designer for Industry (RDI), and in 2007 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (Hon. FAIA) and an Honorary Member of the BDA (Bund Deutscher ARchitekten). In 2008 he was elected a Royal Academician (RA) and awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Kingston University.
In 2009 he was awarded the order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany - the highest tribute that can be paid to individuals for service to the nation - and in the UK New Year Honours 2010 was named Knight Bachelor for services to architecture in the UK and Germany.
1984 Office of David Chipperfield Architects established in London
