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Article: David Chipperfield: Architectural Works 1990-2002.(Book Review)
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- July 1, 2003
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By David Chipperfield, with a foreword by Kenneth Frampton New York: Princeton Architectural Press, $85 343 pages, 500 illustrations [350 color]
David Chipperfield is a master of minimalism but also a master of materials, a combination leading naturally to comparisons with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Architectural historian Kenneth Frampton characterizes Chipperfield as "categorically opposed ... to the idea that architecture is nothing more than art writ large. He insists instead on its irreducible materiality and ... the poetics of fabrication."
After working for Douglas Stephen, Richard Rogers, and Norman Foster, Chipperfield opened his own London firm ...