David Chipperfield (1953~ )建築師 Finding beauty in normality. Sir David Alan Chipperfield:on what makes Berlin special. Berlin's Museum Island welcomes new stately entrance..首爾的愛茉莉太平洋集團總部，由英國建築師David Chipperfield所設計.

 David Chipperfield (1953~ )建築師 Finding beauty in normality. Sir David Alan Chipperfield:on what makes Berlin special.  Berlin's Museum Island welcomes new stately entrance..首爾的愛茉莉太平洋集團總部，由英國建築師David Chipperfield所設計.

李清志 位於首爾的愛茉莉太平洋集團總部，由英國建築師David Chipperfield所設計，簡潔俐落的設計，凸顯出理性的美感，韓國美妝產品總部懂得欣賞這樣的美學，令人激賞！整個大樓有建築師設計陳列館、圖書室、咖啡館、商店，還有愛茉莉太平洋的美術館，美學層次超越一般美妝銷售的既有印象，讓我有感動到！

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David Chipperfield (1953~ ) Finding beauty in normality

 

Sir David Alan Chipperfield, CH, CBE, RA, RDI, RIBA, HRSA (born 18 December 1953) is an English architect. He established David Chipperfield Architects in 1985.^[1]

His major works include the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire (1989–1998); the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach, Germany; the Des Moines Public Library, Iowa (2002–2006); the Neues Museum, Berlin (1997–2009); The Hepworth Wakefield gallery in Wakefield, UK (2003–2011), the Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri (2005–2013); and the Museo Jumex in Mexico City (2009–2013).

David Chipperfield Architects is a global architectural practice with offices in London, Berlin, Milan, and Shanghai.

In 2023, he won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered to be the most prestigious award in architecture.^[2][3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chipperfield

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“Finding beauty in normality seems to me a profound position and something very modern and very different from what our contemporary society is doing, which is to make us hungry for novelty,” he said. “The system is out there to make us dissatisfied. I believe we will look back on this period with some confusion.”

At the same time, Chipperfield said, he is not despairing. “I haven’t lost my confidence in architecture itself,” he said. “We make a physically better world, we make a generally better world. I have always held on to that.”

Berlin's Museum Island welcomes new stately entrance

As of 2019, visitors to Berlin's Museum Island complex will gain access to its different museums via a new building, the James Simon Gallery designed by star architect David Chipperfield.

    

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  WELCOME TO BERLIN'S MUSEUM ISLAND

  A monumental waterfront visitor center

  13 December 2018: Key handed over to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. The James Simon Gallery was designed by star architect David Chipperfield as the central reception building for all exhibition halls. With its shell based on classical architectural elements, it is to blend seamlessly into the ensemble of Berlin's Museum Island.

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Museum Island is a unique UNESCO World Heritage ensemble of museums that draw more than two million visitors from all over the world every year. 

The new James Simon Gallery, named after one of the most important patrons in the history of Berlin's state museums, German-Jewish entrepreneur, art collector and philanthropist Henri James Simon (1851-1932), was designed by English architect David Chipperfield.

It will serve as the new entrance and visitors' service area for the five museums on Berlin's Museum Island, which includes the Pergamon Museum, home to treasures such as the Pergamon Altar and Babylon's Ishtar Gate, and the Neues Museum, which houses a famous bust of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti.

President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Hermann Parzinger, Minister for Culture and Architect David Chipperfield at the presentation of the building

Modern entrance concept

On Thursday, the keys to the new James Simon Gallery were handed over to Berlin's museum authority. Monika Grütters, Germany's minister for Culture and Media, praised the building as an "architecturally convincing entrance." The key to the new building in hand, Michael Eissenhauer, director of Berlin's National Museums even called it a "heaven-sent gift."

Cloakroom area of the James Simon Gallery

On the other hand, the Berlin gallery has also been jokingly dubbed "the most expensive cloakroom in the world," as costs for its construction have almost doubled and it took five years longer than expected to complete the building.

The gallery, set to open in the summer of 2019, will house a ticket area, a cafe, cloakrooms and museum shop.

Click on the above picture gallery to find out more about the James Simon Gallery.

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Star architect David Chipperfield on what makes Berlin special

David Chipperfield: “Architecture is the background”

By Laura Mark

Published 14 May 2018

As the Royal Academy opens its doors after a major redevelopment to mark our 250th birthday, we caught up with its architect, David Chipperfield RA, to hear about his vision for the new RA.

• Tell us about the plan for the new RA

  There were two challenges: one was physical, and the other was organisational. These two challenges sort of fed each other. We asked ourselves: how could the RA best use the Burlington Gardens building in a way which would help the overall ideaof the Academy? And secondly, in terms of the building itself, what did it lend itself to?

  It’s a huge project, but it might appear light touch. Was that important?

  In a way, it’s not a big project. It’s a long project, or maybe a wide project. Its strangeness lies in the fact that it is clearly a “masterplan” – but there’s no big, iconic gesture. It is a masterplan made up of a number of interventions, and each one of these is fairly modest. It’s a three-dimensional puzzle. Some of those punctual interventions have a strong architectural form – the Weston Bridge [between Burlington House and Burlington Gardens], for example, is probably the most explicit one. Moving the bathrooms in Burlington House was a modest intervention, but actually it was an important part of the jigsaw puzzle. By moving them, we could release space for ticketing, and open up the front hall. There are other elements that are nearly invisible – and it’s not important that they’re visible. It is important that, for the next generation and the next life of the institution, these interventions allow certain things to happen that couldn’t before. This project is not about the Royal Academy saying “we need some new architecture”. It’s saying “we need to reuse this building. How do we use it?” And we use architecture as a methodology to deliver that.

  How have you made the life of the Academy more visible?

  The different components of the Academy – which make it an academy, and not a museum – will be much more explicit from now on. The fact that we had to transverse the RA Schools has made it clear that, from now on, everyone will know that there is an art school inside the Royal Academy. That was not well known. For the first time we have also made parts of the permanent collection more visible. Through that, there will be a greater public understanding of the role of the Academicians.

  What role does the new Benjamin West Lecture Theatre play?

  The original building by James Pennethorne had a lecture hall in the same location. It was one storey deeper, so it was more vertiginous than the current one. That was difficult for us to do, but we put it back in its place in a similar format. A lecture hall was part of the Royal Academy’s original ‘shopping list’. Such things tend to be dark spaces, stuck down in the basement, but we felt that it would be nice if it remained a room – that it was like a gallery, in a way. It would be a gallery with seats in it. It has an aspiration to be a public space.

• Come to see the artistic works, not the box they come in. I’m more than happy if visitors notice it has been done well – but architecture is the background. 

  David Chipperfield RA

• How do you hope the project will be received?

  I hope the architectural intervention will be seamless and invisible. How the RA will be perceived is probably to do with how the project frees up programming. It means the Academy will have many more options. In the past, the RA has tended to rely on the main exhibition. But now, the experience will be more balanced: there will be more exhibitions at the same time, alongside lectures and events, and places to eat and drink. The offer will become bigger. It will change the attitude towards the building.

  What did it mean to you as an Academician to do this project?

  At first I thought it might be a disadvantage, but in the end I thought it was quite good. I was one of them and I knew how to receive and filter information. My fellow Academicians were very sympathetic. They know what doing a project like this is about.

  What parallels are there with this project and your other work?

  Projects working with old buildings often have something in common. There are strong relationships between the RA, and other work we have done with existing buildings: they share common issues. We have to develop a language and a philosophical approach. That avoids pastiche.

  What details would you tell visitors to look out for?

  Come to see the artistic works, not the box they come in. I’m more than happy if visitors notice it has been done well – but architecture is the background. You don’t come to the Royal Academy to see a piece of concrete – come here to see a great exhibition.

  Laura Mark is Architecture Projects Manager at the Royal Academy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chipperfield

Sir David Chipperfield CBE RA RDI RIBA
Born	18 December 1953 (age 64) London, England
Occupation	Architect
Awards	RIBA Stirling Prize, Royal Gold Medal, Andrea Palladio Prize, Tessenow Gold Medal
Practice	David Chipperfield Architects
Projects	Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach, Germany (2002–2008) America's Cup Building, Valencia, Spain (2005) The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK (2003–2011) Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (2006–2011) Museo Jumex, Mexico (2009–2013)

Sir David Alan Chipperfield CBE RA RDI RIBA (born 18 December 1953) is an English architect. He established David Chipperfield Architects in 1985.

His major works include the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire (1989–1998); the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach, Germany; the Des Moines Public Library, Iowa (2002–2006); the Neues Museum, Berlin (1997–2009); The Hepworth Wakefield gallery in Wakefield, UK (2003–2011), the Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri (2005–2013); and the Museo Jumex in Mexico City (2009–2013).

Rowan Moore, the architecture critic of the Guardian of London, described his work as serious, solid, not flamboyant or radical, but comfortable with the history and culture of its setting. "He deals in dignity, in gravitas, in memory and in art." ^[1]

David Chipperfield Architects is a global architectural practice with offices in London, Berlin, Milan, and Shanghai.