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David Chipperfield is a world renowned, Pritzker prize winning architect with major buildings in cities across the globe from Berlin to Beijing. But with a long career behind him he has changed the emphasis and ambition of his practice. For ‘In the Studio’. Susan Marling joins him in Compostela in Galicia , northern Spain as he opens a handsome new home for his foundation.
The Casa Ria, in a converted health sanitorium in the centre of town, is about looking at architecture differently . It’s not about designing and building new buildings – rather it’s about improving people’s quality of life. Working in a series of coastal and rural towns north of Compostela David and the team address issues of town planning – to bring public space back onto focus, to re-connect communities with the sea and to deal with traffic that pollutes town centres and makes them dangerous. It looks like small beer after the huge international projects that are Chipperfield’s signature to date but David believes that his holistic and sustainable approach – to unite the stakeholders to make better places - can be scaled up and become a benchmark internationally.