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David Chipperfield CBE
David Chipperfield Architects

David Chipperfield CBE established his practice in 1984, and today it has over 150 staff at its main offices in London, Berlin and Milan and representative office in Shanghai. Led by Chipperfield, the practice has won over 40 national and international competitions and many international awards and citations for design excellence, including RIBA, RFAC & AIA awards and the RIBA Stirling Prize 2007.

In 1993, Chipperfield was awarded the Andrea Palladio Prize, and in 1999, the Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal. In 2004 he was made an Honorary Member of the Florence Academy of Art and Design, and 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 (AIA) and an Honorary Member of the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA). In 2008 he was elected a Royal Academician (RA) and awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Kingston University.

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David Chipperfield CBE

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