Barcelona Meeting Point

David Chipperfield received his Diploma from the Architectural Association in London and from 1978 - 84 worked at the practices of Douglas Stephen, Richard Rogers and Norman Foster. He established his own architectural practice in London in 1984 and in 1987 the office in Berlin was established. The practice currently has 130 staff and has won over 20 national and international competitions as well as many international awards and citations for design excellence, including RIBA, RFAC & AIA

David Chipperfield has taught and lectured extensively in Europe and the USA. He has been Professor of Architecture in the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart, visiting Professor of Architecture at Harvard University, USA, University of Graz, Austria, University of Naples, Italy, Royal College of Art, London, UK, Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne, Switzerland, Art Institute Chicago, USA and Naples School of Architecture, Italy. In addition David Chipperfield held the Mies van der Rohe Chair at the Escola Tècnica of Barcelona in 2003 and was made Honorary Member of the Florence Academy of Art and Design. He is currently visiting professor at the University of the Arts London (formally known as The London Institute) and was visiting professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, USA in early 2006.

In 1991 he was awarded the Andrea Palladio Prize and in 1999 the Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal. He has been made an Honorary Member of the Florence Academy of Art and in 2004 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to architecture.