Sir Ove Nyquist Arup, CBE, MICE, MIStructE (16 April 1895 – 5 February 1988) was a leading Anglo-Danish engineer, the founder of the internationally important firm of Arup and generally considered to be one of the foremost engineers of his time.
Arup was born in Newcastle, England in 1895, to Jens Simon Johannes Arup and Mathilde Bolette Nyquist. Arup attended the Sorø Academy in Denmark—a boarding school with many influences from Dr Thomas Arnol...
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Sir Ove Nyquist Arup, CBE, MICE, MIStructE (16 April 1895 – 5 February 1988) was a leading Anglo-Danish engineer, the founder of the internationally important firm of Arup and generally considered to be one of the foremost engineers of his time.
Arup was born in Newcastle, England in 1895, to Jens Simon Johannes Arup and Mathilde Bolette Nyquist. Arup attended the Sorø Academy in Denmark—a boarding school with many influences from Dr Thomas Arnold of the Rugby School in the United Kingdom.
In 1913, he began studying philosophy at Copenhagen University and in 1918 enrolled for an engineering degree at the Polyteknisk Læreanstalt, Copenhagen, specialising in reinforced concrete. He completed his studies in 1922. At this time Ove Arup was influenced by Charles Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) and his publication Vers une architecture, published that year; and also by Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus movement.
In 1922, he began work with a Danish firm in Hamburg called...
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