Ove Arup
| Sir Ove Arup CBE |
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| Born |
16 April 1895 Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
| Died | 5 February 1988 (aged 92) London, England |
| Nationality | Anglo-Danish |
| Citizenship | British |
| Education |
Sorø Academy Copenhagen University Polyteknisk Læreanstalt |
| Spouse(s) | Ruth Sørensen |
| Parent(s) | Jens Simon Johannes Arup Mathilde Jolette Nyquist |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | Structural engineer |
| Institutions | Institution of Structural Engineers |
| Practice name | Arup |
| Projects |
Sydney Opera House Centre Pompidou Kingsgate Bridge Highpoint I Labworth Café |
| Awards |
IStructE Gold Medal RIBA Gold Medal |
Sir Ove Nyquist Arup, CBE, MICE, MIStructE, FCIOB (16 April 1895 – 5 February 1988) was a British engineer who founded Arup Group Limited, a multinational corporation that offers engineering, design, planning, project management, and consulting services for building systems. Ove Arup is considered to be among the foremost architectural structural engineers of his time.
Arup was born in Newcastle, England, in 1895, to the Danish veterinary surgeon Jens Simon Johannes Arup and his Norwegian wife Mathilde Bolette Nyquist. Arup attended the Sorø Academy in Denmark—a boarding school with many influences from Dr Thomas Arnold of the Rugby School in the United Kingdom.
In 1913, he began studying philosophy at Copenhagen University and in 1918 enrolled for an engineering degree at the Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, specialising in reinforced concrete. He completed his studies in 1922. At this time Ove Arup was influenced by Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) and his publication Vers une architecture, published that year; and also by Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus movement.
In 1922, Ove Arup began work with a Danish firm in Hamburg called Christiani & Nielsen, and in December 1923 he moved to their London office as chief engineer. Arup married Ruth Sørensen, known as Li, on 13 August 1925.
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