Anthony Hunt

Anthony Hunt (born June 22, 1932 in Streatham Hill, London ) is a British civil engineer.

Hunt grew up in Farnborough (Hampshire) and studied civil engineering at Northampton Polytechnic (1947/48, without a degree) and in evening classes at Westminster Technical College in London (he later acquired the professional qualification as a structural engineer). First he worked for a smaller engineering firm (Wheeler & Jupp) in London. Impressed by Felix Samuely and Frank Newby's Skylon at the Festival of Britain in 1951, he applied to Samuely's engineering office and was accepted. Among other things, he was involved in the new construction of the American embassy in London (architect Eero Saarinen ). He then worked for Terence Conran and Hancock Associates, before starting his own business in 1962 with the engineering firm Anthony Hunt Associates. He played a major role in the development of the high tech style of British architecture, associated with the names of architects such as Norman Foster and Richard Rogers , Michael Hopkins and Nicholas Grimshaw , with whom Hunt worked a lot as structural engineers. In 2002 he retired.

He belonged to the second generation of British civil engineers who worked closely with architects (in the first generation prominent representatives were Owen Williams , Ove Arup and Felix Samuely), with Frank Newby , Edmund Happold and Peter Rice . His buildings belonged to the direction of modular construction from prefabricated parts, popular in Great Britain from the 1960s and 1970s to the mid-1980s.

His works include the Reliance Controls Building in Swindon (1966), the Eden Project , the Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts in Norwich and Waterloo Railway Station (1993).

In 1994 he received the gold medal from the Institution of Structural Engineers .

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