David Chipperfield is an absolute exception architect. Will come up trumps in a field where rattled sabers, with sensations and spectacles serve, "innovation", Economy and Ecology as Subjects of marketing strategies, he quietly ordered his field - and continues nevertheless a one of the largest crops. He is now regarded as the architect of large projects with urban dimensions, the dedicated but detached houses, the beginnings were modest extent, although executed with virtuosic flair for material and detail. The Issey Miyake Store in London and Equipment Stores procure for th him international attention, leading to a nearly four-year period of creativity in Japan. There, Chipperfield worked with Sichtbetonbauten as supplements in the dense urban context.These two aspects of the early years, both inside the spatial precision as well as the contextual component, to this day are the priorities in its architecture, without the spectacle and (supposed) to manage everything innovations and is now available on four continents. The monograph has now been presented this philosophy reflected in print form. Unexcited and material can not be a book, because there is neither a smart layout nor an exaggerated reduction, instead clarity and pragmatism. Only the cover looks a bit simple and dull, which the monograph is rather the character of a catalog. Interior quality paper then surprise the quality and the abundance of projects that were put on the nearly 400 pages. The 45 listed in the table of contents projects represent only a selection is, however, one comes across a variety of projects that are torn just on one or two pages, but do not have listed ... And these are not just small projects or unrealized, for example, the Rena Lange headquarters in Munich or the Palace of Justice in Salerno are below. The monograph leads confidently through twenty-five years of creativity and covers everything from small scale urban design, but without going into the product and furniture design. The projects are understandable presented through photographs, floor plans and presentation aids such as model, rendering or simulation, and introduced with an informative text. After an introduction by Fulvio Irace Chipperfield himself, Bernhard Schulz and Luis Fernández-Galiano illuminate the development of the office, but also the special situation in Germany, where Chipperfield in Berlin now operates its largest office, and even the humble personality of the architect himself. project data to the buildings and an extended project chronology shown complete the book.

David Chipperfield Architects 
Edited by Rki Nys 
384 pages with illustrations, text in English, 58 euros 
publisher of Walther König, Cologne 2013 
ISBN 978-3-86335-134-2

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