Ove Arup
Founder of Arup (1895–1988)
Sir Ove Nyquist Arup (16 April 1895 – 5 February 1988) was a British engineer with Danish heritage who founded Arup, a multinational corporation offering 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.2
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Born Apr 16, 1895, died Feb 5, 1988.1
Companies
Early life and education
- Date not recordedSorø Academy Boarding School3
- Since 1913University of Copenhagen3
- Since 1918Technical University of Denmark3
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 influenced by Thomas Arnold of Rugby School in the United Kingdom.
In 1913, he began studying philosophy at the University of Copenhagen and in 1918 enrolled in an engineering degree at the Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, specializing in reinforced concrete. He completed his studies in 1922. At this time, Ove Arup was influenced by Le Corbusier and his publication Vers une architecture, published that year, as well as by Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus movement.
Arup married Ruth Sørensen, known as Li, on 13 August 1925.
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Career
Occupation: architect, entrepreneur, structural engineer, engineer.5
Personal life
Awards
Links
Sources
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- 1WikidataOve Arup on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaOve Arup on Wikipedia
- 3WikidataOve Arup: education, on Wikidata
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- 9WikidataOve Arup: award, on Wikidata
- 10Wikidataaward, as reported
- 11WikidataArup, Founder
- 12Wikimedia CommonsOve Arup photo by Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain