Michael Dickson
Michael Dickson (born September 22, 1944 - † May 28, 2018 ) was a British civil engineer.
Dickson holds a Masters degree in Engineering from Cambridge University and Civil Engineering and Urban Planning from Cornell University . From 1968 he was with Arup . In 1976 he left Arup with Edmund Happold and became a founding partner of Buro Happold. After Happold's death in 1996, he took over the management of the engineering office, which he held for nine years until 2005.
He was strongly influenced by the ideas of Frei Otto . He had several projects with Otto as an architect (Vogelvoliere Tierpark Hellabrunn, cable network roof of the sports hall at King Abdul Aziz University (Rolf Gutbrod, Frei Otto), work building for furniture maker John Makepeace in Hooke Park (Dorset, architects Ahrends Burton & Koralek and Frei Otto) , Roof of the Stuttgart 21 train station (architects Ingenhoven, Frei Otto), roof of the Japanese pavilion at the Expo 2000 in Hanover (architects Frei Otto, Shigeru Ban)). With the architect Norman Foster he had the 267 m high Al Faisaliyah Center in Riyadh and with Hopkins Architects the Queen`s Building at Emmanuel College Cambridge. He constructed the first building in Great Britain with a wooden lattice roof, the Downland Gridshell Building in the Weald and Downland Museum in Sussex (architects Cullinan Studio), followed by the Savill Building Visitor Center in Windsor Great Park (architect Glenn Howells), also with Lattice-shell roof made of wood in the shape of a clamshell.
He was CBE .
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| SURNAME | Dickson, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 22, 1944 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 2018 |