Ove Arup

Arup was born in Newcastle, England, in 1895,{{cite web|url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=12860 |title=World-renowned engineer Sir Ove Arup honoured with unveiling of new bust – Durham University |website=Dur.ac.uk |date=28 September 2011 |access-date=28 March 2016}} 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,{{cite web |author=Christina M. Zweig |url=http://cenews.com/article/8771/ove-nyquist-arup-the-engineering-masterbuilder |title=Ove Nyquist Arup: The engineering masterbuilder | civil + structural ENGINEER |website=Cenews.com |access-date=28 March 2016|archive-date=9 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409215825/http://cenews.com/article/8771/ove-nyquist-arup-the-engineering-masterbuilder |url-status=dead }} 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.{{citation needed|date=December 2022}}

Arup married Ruth Sørensen, known as Li, on 13 August 1925.Jones, 2006. (p. 44).

In 1922, Ove Arup began working with the Danish firm Christiani & Nielsen in Hamburg, and in December 1923, he moved to their London office as chief engineer.Jones, 2006. (p. 31).

He designed the Labworth Café—a café with two integrated shelters located on the promenade of the Essex seaside resort of Canvey Island. The café remains the only building solely designed by Arup."...the Labworth Café, the only building designed by the distinguished engineer Ove Arup." (Bettley, 2008). "...one of the only architectural designs by Ove Arup" (English Heritage, 2007).

Arup then worked as a structural consultant for the Tecton partnership, notably on the Penguin Pool at London's Regent's Park Zoo,Glynn, 1998–2006. as well as on projects at Whipsnade Zoo, Dudley Zoo, a villa in Heath Drive, Romford, Essex, and Highpoint I in Highgate—a building he later criticized. The close working relationship that Arup developed with Tecton's senior partner Berthold Lubetkin proved highly significant in advancing both men's careers.

He subsequently joined the London construction company J. L. Kier & Co. as director and chief designer from 1934 to 1938. During the 1930s, Arup also collaborated with notable architects such as Ernő Goldfinger, Wells Coates, Maxwell Fry, Yorke, Rosenberg & Mardall, and Marcel Breuer.

In 1935, he became a member of the executive committee of the MARS Group. In 1938, he and his cousin Arne founded Arup & Arup Limited, a firm of engineers and contractors.

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Before World War II, Ove Arup was a member of the Air Raid Precautions (ARP) organising committee, where he advised Finsbury Council on the provision of bomb shelters. During the war, he published several papers on shelter policy and designs, advocating for reinforced concrete mass shelters as opposed to the government’s policy of dispersing the population in small domestic shelters. However, most of his recommendations were not adopted due to political reasons, though some affluent Londoners were able to build concrete shelters based on his designs.

Arup played a significant role in the design of the Mulberry temporary harbours used during the D-Day landings. The Mulberry Harbour was a type of temporary harbour developed to offload cargo on the beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy. The sections for two prefabricated or artificial military harbours were transported with the invading army from Britain across the English Channel and assembled off the coast of Normandy as part of the D-Day invasion of France in 1944.

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In 1946, after dissolving Arup & Arup Ltd, Ove Arup created a team of civil and structural engineering consultants. In the same year, he formed his first partnership with Ronald Jenkins, Geoffrey Wood, and Andrew Young, called Arup and Partners.

In 1963, a further company, Arup Associates,Brawne, 1983. was formed as a new partnership. This body included architects and engineers working on an equal basis as building designers, including the engineer Ove Arup, the architects Francis Pym and Philip Dowson, and the former partners of Arup and Partners. It was a multidisciplinary company providing engineering, architectural, and other services for the built environment. Arup himself noted that ultimately, all of the Arup entities resulted in a firm known simply as Arup.

Highpoint I, built in 1935, was an important experiment in high-rise residential design and one of Arup's most significant collaborations with Berthold Lubetkin. However, Arup later criticized the project, noting that it had significant flaws.

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Ove Arup personally supervised the design and construction of Durham's Kingsgate Bridge in 1963. As the firm's first bridge project, Arup held a particular attachment to it, and after his death, his ashes were scattered from the bridge. A bust of Arup, placed at one end of the bridge, was stolen in the summer of 2006 but has since been replaced. Kingsgate Bridge was the last structure designed by Arup.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/nov/12/concrete-jungle-the-brutalist-buildings-of-northern-england-in-pictures|title=Concrete jungle: The brutalist buildings of northern England – in pictures|newspaper=The Guardian|date=12 November 2020|last=Steele|first=Matthew}}

The mid-century Van Ginkel Footbridge is located in Bowring Park, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is a cantilever bridge, meaning it is anchored to the ground on one end, while the other end extends outward, unsupported. The bridge was granted heritage designation in 2020.{{Cite news|date=14 April 2020|title=Bowring Park bridge gets heritage status, as St. John's looks for revitalization cash|work=CBC.ca|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/cantilever-bridge-ove-arup-bowring-park-1.5531320|access-date=9 July 2020}} The architect of the bridge was Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, who received the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's Gold Medal for lifetime achievement.

Arup served as the design engineer for the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia, from the project's inception in 1957 until its completion in 1973. This iconic building, which made groundbreaking use of precast concrete, structural glue, and computer analysis,{{Cite web|url=https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2016/06/ove-arup-engineering-at-the-heart-of-design/|title=Ove Arup: Engineering at the Heart of Design|date=14 June 2016}} significantly bolstered Arup's reputation, as well as that of his firm, despite the extremely challenging working relationship with the architect, Jørn Utzon.

• 1953: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE){{London Gazette |issue=39732 |date=1 January 1953 |page=10 |supp=y}}
• 1965: Knight First Class of the Order of the Dannebrog
• 1966: Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects
• 1971: Knight Bachelor{{London Gazette |issue=45423 |date=13 July 1971 |page=7501}}
• 1973: Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers
• 1975: Knight Commander First Class of the Order of the Dannebrog
• 1976: Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University{{Cite web|url=http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|title=Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates|website=www1.hw.ac.uk|access-date=6 April 2016|archive-date=18 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418163907/http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|url-status=dead}}
• 1987: Royal Academician

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• {{cite book |last= Arup |first= Ove Nyquist |editor-last= Liengaard |editor-first= Anja |title= Doodles and doggerel |year= 1989 |publisher= Ove Arup Partnership |location= London }}
• Brawne, Michael. (1983). Arup Associates: The biography of an architectural practice. London: Lund Humphries. {{ISBN|0-85331-449-7}} (casebound) {{ISBN|0-85331-451-9}} (paperback)
• Bettley, James. (2008). [http://www.realessex.co.uk/essex_explored/essex_architecture Essex Explored: Essex Architecture.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080624060128/http://www.realessex.co.uk/essex_explored/essex_architecture |date=24 June 2008 }} Essex County Council. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
• {{cite book |first1= Peter | last1= Campbell |first2= John | last2= Allan |first3= Peter | last3= Ahrends |first4= Jack | last4= Zunz |author4-link= Gerhard Jack Zunz |first5= Patrick | last5= Morreau |title= Ove Arup 1895–1988 |year= 1995 |publisher= Institution of Civil Engineers |location= London |isbn= 0-7277-2066-X}}
• English Heritage. (2007). National Monuments Records: Images of England. Detailed Record, [https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1268484 Details for IoE Number: 461758]. Retrieved: 2008-02-18.
• Glynn, Simon. (1998–2006). [http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/penguin/ Penguin Pool London Zoo by Berthold Lubetkin]. Galinsky. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
• {{cite book |last= Jones |first= Peter |title= Ove Arup : Masterbuilder of the Twentieth Century |year= 2006 |publisher= Yale University Press |location= New Haven, CT and London |isbn= 978-0-300-11296-2 |url= https://archive.org/details/ovearupmasterbui00jone }}
• {{cite book |title= Ove Arup & Partners 1946–1986 |year= 1986 |publisher= Academy Editions |location= London |isbn= 0-85670-898-4}}

• Churchill Archives Centre, [https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/9/resources/1404 The Papers of Sir Ove Arup], ARUP.

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• [http://www.c20society.org.uk/botm/dudley-zoo/ Twentieth Century Society: article on Dudley Zoo]
• {{YouTube|UAJ0sW36I80|Short film on the reinforced concrete buildings that Ove Arup helped design for Dudley Zoo in the 1930s}}

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