British architect David Alan Chipperfield, known for renovating old buildings such as the New Berlin Museum, is the winner of the 2023 Pritzker Prize, the world’s most important architecture prize, the organization announced on Tuesday.
The international prize was created in 1979 to annually reward a living architect for significant achievements in this discipline and amounts to 100 thousand dollars (approximately 93,800 euros).
Portuguese architects Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura were awarded the Pritzker in 1992 and 2011 respectively.
The jury, chaired this year by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, consisted of Brazilian diplomat André Aranha Lago, art history professor Barry Bergdoll, architect Deborah Berke, lawyer Stephen Breyer and architect Kazuyo Sejima, architect Benedetta Tagliabue, professor and architect Wang Shu, and the jury executive director of the prize, curator Manuela Lucá-Dazio.
In 2022, the Pritzker Prize went to Burkina Faso architect Francis Kéré, who became the first African to win the prize, and in 2021, the French architectural duo Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal won.
In 2020, the Pritzker Prize was awarded to Irish architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, co-founders of the Grafton Architects firm, the first female duo to win the prize.
Source: DN
