Edmund Happold

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Sir Edmund Happold , called Ted Happold, (born November 8, 1930 in Leeds , † January 12, 1996 ) was a British civil engineer. He was involved in the construction of the Sydney Opera House and the Center Pompidou . He is the founder of the engineering office Buro Happold .

Life

His father Frank Happold was a professor of biochemistry at Leeds University . He first studied geology and after military service (he was a Quaker) civil engineering at the University of Leeds with a bachelor's degree in 1957.

After a short time in Alvar Aalto's architectural office , he started working for the Arup engineering office in 1956 . In Povl Ahm's team , he was involved in the planning of Coventry Cathedral . In 1959 he moved to the engineering firm Severud , Elstad and Kruger in New York . There he was particularly influenced by his work at the David S. Ingalls ice hockey stadium at Yale University by architect Eero Saarinen . In 1961 he returned to Arup in London, where he became head of the Structures 3 progressive planning department . He was strongly influenced by Frei Otto and friends with him and worked with him on rope network structures . He set up a laboratory with Ian Liddell , Michael Dickson and Peter Rice . Influences also came from the materials scientist James Edward Gordon , who conceptually dealt with building structures, some based on biological models.

In 1976 he left Arup and founded a. a. with Liddell as partner and Michael Dickson (who took over the management of the engineering office after Happold's death) in Bath his own engineering office Buro Happold , which today employs 1900 people in 21 countries. In the same year he became professor of civil engineering at Bath University .

Happold founded the Building Industry Council (later Construction Industry Council ).

Projects (selection)

  • Sussex University (1960s, with Basil Spence )
  • Central Hill housing estate , London Borough of Lambeth (1966–74, with architect Edward Hollamby , demolition planned since 2017)
  • Riad Conference Center (1966, architect Trevor Dannatt)
  • Hotel and conference center in Mecca (1966, with Frei Otto, Rolf Gutbrod )
  • Crucible Theater in Sheffield (1968-70, with Renton Howard Wood Levin)
  • Center Georges-Pompidou (with the architects Renzo Piano , Richard Rogers , Gianfranco Franchini, he won the design competition in 1971)
  • Hyde Park Barracks in London (1970, with Basil Spence)
  • Multihalle in Mannheim (1975, with Frei Otto)
  • King Abdul Aziz Sports Hall in Jeddah (1979, with Frei Otto)
  • Sainsbury - Extension of Worcester College in Oxford (1983, with the architects MacCormac Jameson and Prichard)
  • Large aviary in Hellabrunn Zoo (1978 to 1982, with Frei Otto)
  • Prototype House (1987), workshop (1989) and dormitory (1996), Hooke Park ( Parnham College Woodland Campus, since 2002 AA Woodland Campus ) in Dorset (with Frei Otto, Richard Burton, Edward Cullinan Architects)
  • Diplomatic Club in Riyadh (1986, with Frei Otto)

Honors

In 1991 he received the Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers , of which he was president in 1986/87. He received the Guthrie Brown Medal in 1970, the Eiffel Medal of the Ecole Centrale de Paris and the Kerensky Medal of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Design. In 1994 he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor . He was one of the Royal Designers for Industry (RDI) and Vice President of the Royal Society of Arts .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Structures 3. In: Ruby Kitching, Jane Joyce and Mark Whitby: Engineering Biography: Peter Rice. Engineering timelines.
  2. ↑ About us. BuroHappold.com (accessed September 8, 2018).
  3. ^ Honor of Knighthood, February 15, 1994. In: The London Gazette . No. 53741, p. 10497 (July 22, 1994).
personal data
SURNAME Happold, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Happold, Ted
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeds
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1996