David Chipperfield is a difficult architect to categorise there are a great number of labels you can charge him with. He’s a humanist, a functionalist, an intellectual, a conservative, a realist, an optimist and a pessimist; you can call his work modest, challenging, innovative, equipoise, bucolic, empathic, rational and circumspect. This is a testament to the eclectic array of work he and his practice has produced since its conception in 1985.
