Respectful with the history and the genius loci, but radically contemporary; based on a language of clean geometry, but essentially material; signature architecture, but at the service of the community. This is how we could describe the professional career of the Pritzker Prize laureate of 2023, the British architect David Chipperfield, whose studio founded in 1985 has a polycentric organization today with offices in London, Berlin, Milan, Shanghai, and Santiago de Compostela. Arquitectura Viva offers a detailed journey through an updated selection of 66 works and projects, in a fully bilingual Spanish-English edition of 360 pages that will be available in digital edition for a limited time only. The works are accompanied by a series of articles —by Luis Fernández-Galiano, Sebastian Redecke, Deyan Sudjic, Flora Samuel, Richard Ingersoll, Deborah Berke and David Chipperfield himself—, which take stock of a concise and coherent architecture that tackles the discipline's fundamental principles (space, light, geometry), and that shows its capacity to adapt to the different ecosystems of globalization.

David Chipperfield