peter rice

PETER RICE
Peter Rice was born in Ireland and
studied engineering at Queens
University in Belfast and Imperial
College. He joined Ove Arup &
Partners in 1956 and since then hos
advised on the design of some of the
most significant buildings of our time.
He become a Director of Ove Arup &
Partners in 1978. Between 1977 and
1979 he was a Portner of Piano Rice
and he hos been a Director of RFR in
Paris and the Ove Arup Partnership
since 1984.
Peter Rice's work hos been
characterised by on innovative use of
materials. Some of the more
important projects he hos worked on
hove included the Sydney Opera
House where he was resident
engineer on site in the 1960s; Centre
Pompidou, Paris with architects Piano
and Rogers, where he was the
designer of the steel structure and
introduced the use of cost steel; the
Gloss Serre at the Museum of Science
and Industry, Lo Villette, Paris, with
the architect Adrien Fo insilber; the
Mound Stand at Lords, London
working with architect Michael
Hopkins and Partners; Lloyds of
London, designed by the Richard
Rogers Partnership; the Menil
Museum, Houston, Texas, where he
explored the use of ductile iron and
ferro-cement; the Son Nicolo Football
Stadium, Bari, Italy and the BIGO
sculptural symbol of the Colombo '92
Festival, Genoa, Ita ly, all with Renzo
Piano Building Workshop, Genova,
Italy; Kansai International Airport
Terminal, Osako, Japan with Renzo
Piano Building Workshop, Japan and
the fabric 'Clouds' at the Grande
Arch, Paris with architects J. 0 .
Spreckelsen and P. Andreu. A recent
project, the Pavilion of the Future in
Expo '92 Seville, Spain, explores the
use of stone in on original structural
way. The architects were Martorell
Bohigos MocKoy. Studies of designs
for natural lighting for new galleries
at the Louvre, Paris, and the gloss
enclosures to the Sculpture
Courtyards, Paris, were recently
developed in close collaboration with
I. M. Pei Architects, New York.
In 1988 Peter Rice was mode on
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute
of British Architects and two years
later on Honorary Member of the
Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland.
He was awarded Lo Medoille
d'Argent de lo Societe
d'Encourogement pour l'lndustrie
Notionole in 1987 and in 1989
received Lo Medoille d'Argent de lo
Recherche et de lo Technique from
the Acodemie d'Architecture. He was
joint author with Hugh Dutton of 'Le
Verre Structure!' published by Editions
du Moniteur in 1990 and hos been a
contributor to numerous international
books and journals on architecture,
design and engineering.
Peter hos been on examiner at the
Architectural Association and the
Royal College of Art in London. He
hos also been a port-time tutor in
Design at the Engineering Deportment
of Cambridge University.
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