Name Ian Ritchie Role Architect | Structures Spire of Dublin | |
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Books Being: An Architect, (Well) connected architecture, Ian Ritchie: Lines, Stratton Street Series | ||
Organizations founded Ian Ritchie Architects Similar Nicholas Grimshaw, David Mackay (architect), James Stirling (architect) | ||
This land is our land greening architecture ethics and the environment a lecture by ian ritchie
Ian Ritchie CBE RA (born 24 June 1947 in Sussex) is a British architect, artist and author, who founded Ian Ritchie Architects in 1981. His projects include the RIBA Award-winning Terrasson Greenhouse and London Regatta Centre, and American Institute of Architects Award-winning Royal Shakespeare Company Courtyard Theatre. Ritchie was the first foreign architect to receive the French Academie d’Architecture Grand Silver Medal for Innovation.
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- This land is our land greening architecture ethics and the environment a lecture by ian ritchie
- Career
- Major architectural projects
- Public and professional appointments selected
- Educational appointments selected
- Awards and honours selected
- References
Career
Ritchie graduated from Liverpool John Moores University School of Architecture in 1968. He then went on to research Urban Studies for a year in Oita-Osaka, Japan and graduated with a Diploma in Architecture with Distinction from PCL, London (now University of Westminster) in 1972. After working with Norman Foster (1972–76), Ritchie spent two years in France designing and constructing projects before joining Arup's Lightweight Structure Group. In 1979, he founded Chrysalis Architects. In 1981 he created Ian Ritchie Architects in London, and co-founded the design engineering firm Rice Francis Ritchie (RFR) with Peter Rice and Martin Francis in Paris. Ritchie left RFR in 1990 and went on to a number of advisory and teaching roles alongside his work at Ian Ritchie Architects, regularly lecturing on topics including art, urbanism and regeneration at venues across the world. During his career he has been awarded multiple accolades, including a CBE in 2000, and was elected a Royal Academician in 1998 and Professor of Architecture at the RA Schools in 2004. Ritchie (and Ian Ritchie Architects) have had over 60 national and international award nominations and have been shortlisted four times for the RIBA Stirling Prize and Mies Van der Rohe Prize. Ritchie was the first foreign architect to receive the French Academie d’Architecture Grand Silver Medal for Innovation.
Major architectural projects
In 1999, Ian Ritchie Architects (alongside Scottish Homes and Thenew Housing Association) completed Scotland’s Home of Tomorrow - new social housing for Glasgow’s East End.