The 2023 Pritzker Prize, the highest distinction in the world of architecture (endowment of 100,000 dollars) was awarded on Tuesday to Briton David Chipperfield, 69.
Recognized for the intelligence of his interventions on the existing heritage, he has not however signed any notorious building in recent years, apart from the River and Rowing Museum, near Oxford, that of the Jumex collection in Mexico or the America's Cup pavilion in Valencia, Spain.
He especially stood out for giving a second life to buildings rather than demolishing them to make something new.
But the jury chaired by Alejandro Aravena, the Chilean winner in 2016, wished to salute a work deemed "
powerful and elegant"
, even if it is however much less committed to social, environmental and climatic challenges than its predecessor: Diébédo Francis Kéré, this native of Gando in Burkina Faso, naturalized German, who integrates communities into his projects and builds with the local…
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