Pritzker Prize awarded to British architect Chipperfield

British architect David Alan Chipperfield, photographed in August 2012. On March 7, he became the 52nd winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Bruno Cordioli. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
British architect David Alan Chipperfield, photographed in August 2012. On March 7, he became the 52nd winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Bruno Cordioli. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
British architect David Alan Chipperfield, photographed in August 2012. On March 7, he became the 52nd winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Bruno Cordioli. Shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

CHICAGO – The Pritzker Architecture Prize – the highest honor in the field – has been awarded to British architect and urban planner David Alan Chipperfield, hailed on March 7 for “a commitment to an architecture of understated but transformative civic presence.”

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