The Netherlands’ Sikkens Prize 2015 Awarded to David Chipperfield

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.

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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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.

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David Chipperfield

Sir David Alan Chipperfield was born in London in 1953 and was raised on a farm in Devon, in the southwest of England. He studied architecture at the Kingston School of Art and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, graduating in 1980. He later worked with Douglas Stephen, Norman Foster, and Richard Rogers before founding his own firm, David Chipperfield Architects, in 1985.

The firm has grown to include offices in London, Berlin (1998), Shanghai (2005), Milan (2006), and Santiago de Compostela (2022). His first notable commission was a commercial interior for Issey Miyake in London, which led him to work in Japan. In the United Kingdom, his first significant building was the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, completed in 1997.

Chipperfield has developed over one hundred projects across Asia, Europe, and North America, including civic, cultural, academic, and residential buildings. In Germany, he led the reconstruction of the Neues Museum in Berlin (1993–2009) and the construction of the James-Simon-Galerie (1999–2018).

He has been a professor at various universities in Europe and the United States, including the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and Yale University. In 2012, he curated the 13th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. In 2017, he established the RIA Foundation in Galicia, Spain, dedicated to research on sustainable development in the region.

He is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and has been recognized as an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA). He has received numerous awards, including the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 2011, the Praemium Imperiale from the Japan Art Association in 2013, and the Pritzker Prize in 2023. In 2009, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, in 2010 he was knighted for his services to architecture, and in 2021 he was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in the United Kingdom.

Chipperfield's career is distinguished by his focus on the relationship between architecture and its context, as well as his commitment to sustainability and the preservation of architectural heritage.

Published on: February 27, 2015

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