Peter Rice

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Peter Rice (1935-1992) was an Irish structural engineer. Born in Dundalk, he was educated at the Queen's University of Belfast and Imperial College London. He worked for Arup.

Among the buildings on whose design he worked are the Centre Pompidou, the Sydney Opera House, Lloyd's of London, the Louvre Pyramid, the Mound Stand at Lord's Cricket Ground, Kansai International Airport and Stansted Airport.

In 1992 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

[edit] Further reading

  • An Engineer Imagines by Peter Rice (Ellipsis Press, 1998)
  • An Engineer Imagines, by P. Rice(1994)
  • Structural Glass, H. Dutton, P. Rice (Routledge; 2001)
  • Transparente Architektur, Glasfassaden mit Structural Glazing, by H. Dutton, P. Rice (Birkhäuser Verlag; 1995)
  • Yutaka Saito in: Space design, 8/1992,335 by Y. Saito, O. Murai, K. Nanba, M. Ueda, P. Rice, T. Shinoda (p. 5 - 188)
  • Building a show: The Bastille Dances, by Station House Opera in: The Architects' Journal, 6/1989, by P. Rice (p. 72 - 73) - performance review
  • Design for better assembly, case study: Rogers' and Arup's in: The Architects' Journal, 36/1984, by J. Young, P. Rice, J. Thornton (p. 87 - 94)
  • Menil Collection Museum roof: evolving the form in: Arup journal, 2/1987, by P. Rice (p. 2 - 5)
  • Rogers revolution: Lloyd's remarkable new headquarters in: Building Design, 1986,807, by P. Rice (p. 32 - 33)
  • Il punto di vista di Peter Rice | An engineer's view in: L'Arca, 1987,5, by P. Rice (p. 70 - 75)
  • Unstable structures in: Columbia documents of architecture and theory, 1992, by P. Rice (p. 71 - 89)
  • Stratégie de l'araignée in: L'architecture d'aujourd'hui, 1987,252, by P. Rice (p. 78 - 79)
  • Menil Collection museum roof: evolving the form in: Offramp, 1991,4 by P. Rice (p. 117 - 119)
  • Gleichgewicht und Spannung | Equilibre et tension in: Archithese, 2/1990, by P. Rice (p. 84 - 96)
  • Konstruktive Intelligenz in: arch+: Rhetorik des Machens, 1990,102, by G. Behnisch, C. Vasconi, O. Aicher, J. Nouvel, H. C. Schulitz, P. Rice, R. Rogers, S. Polónyi, H. von Malotki (p. 42 - 52)

[edit] Projects

  • TGV Station Lille; 1994
  • Mobiles Zelt in London London; 1992
  • TGV Station Roissy; 1991-94
  • Elektronikfabrik Thomson Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines; 1990
  • Umbau des Louvre Paris-1er; 1988-93
  • De Menil Collection Houston; 1981-86
  • IBM Pavillon 1980-84
  • 'Quartierslaboratorium' für Stadterneuerung Otranto; 1979
  • Residential Complex Corciano; 1978-82
  • Centre Pompidou (Beaubourg) Paris-4e; 1977-81

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