Chipperfield Named as Rolex Architecture Mentor

Chipperfield is one of seven mentors announced on Sunday in Mexico City; the others are writer Mia Couto, filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón, composer Philip Glass, artist Joan Jonas, theater director Robert Lepage, and choreographer Ohad Naharin. Each mentors selects a protégé and then works with them for a year, fully funded by the watchmaker. (Last year, Peter Zumthor selected Paraguayan architect Gloria Cabral as his protégé.)

On being named one of the seven mentors, Chipperfield said in a statement: "Architecture involves complex and overlapping concerns and skills from the theoretical to the practical. Intentions are often obscured by jargon and inappropriate concerns. I would hope to remind my protégé that the issues that confront us are those that confront us all, we have different tools and methods with which we can contemplate and with which we can hopefully act."

More information on the program and the new mentors can be found on the Rolex Mentor & Protégé website.