After the announcement in early March of his selection as the 2023 Pritzker laureate, last week Sir David Alan Chipperfield was awarded the prize in a ceremony in Athens, Greece. Several hundred people were in attendance Wednesday evening on the ancient Agora, an archaeological site located beneath the northwest slope of the Acropolis. Among those present were Chipperfield’s partners in offices from London, Berlin, Milan, Shanghai, and Santiago de Compostela, joined by former Pritzker laureates Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell of Dublin-based Grafton Architects, Francis Kéré, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, and Alejandro Aravena. Aravena chairs the Pritzker jury, whose members—Barry Bergdoll, Deborah Berke, Benedetta Tagliabue, André Corrêa do Lago, and retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, and former laureates Wang Shu and Kazuyo Sejima—were all also on hand for the event.

David Chipperfield joined by Pritzker Prize officials and past winners; pictured from left to right: Manuela Lucá-Dazio, executive director of the Pritzker Prize; Jean-Philippe Vassal, Anne Lacaton, Chipperfield, Alejandro Aravena, and Francis Kéré. Photo by Nikolas Kominis for The Hyatt Foundation/The Pritzker Architecture Prize