Cecil Balmond, Esq's Biography
- Forename(s)
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Cecil
- Sex
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Male
- Date of Birth
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26/2/1943 Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Surname
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BALMOND
- Style
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Cecil Balmond, Esq
- Recreations
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classical guitar
Cecil Balmond, Esq's Professional Career
- Career
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Ove Arup and Ptnrs Ltd: joined in 1968, dir 1990-, chm Europe 2000-04, dep chm 2004-, life-term tstee 2007, Arup fell and chm Arup Fells' Panel; numerous projects incl: Carlsberg Brewery Northampton 1970, Qatar Univ 1975, Royal London House 1983, Palazzo Citterio Milan 1987, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid 1988, Portugese Pavilion for Expo '98 1995, Illinois Inst of Technol 1998, Serpentine Pavilion London (with Toyo Ito) 2002, Centre Pompidou (Metz) France 2004, Shenzhen Stock Exchange China 2006, Pedro and Ines>ce Bridge Coimbra Portugal; external examiner Architectural Assoc London, visiting prof Städelschüle Frankfurt-am-Main 1987-95, visiting Saarinen prof Sch of Architecture Yale Univ 1997-2002, visiting Kenzo Tange critic Harvard Grad Sch of Architecture 2000, visiting Graham prof Penn Design Univ of Pennsylvania 2003, prof Urban Cities Prog LSE 2003-04, Paul Phillipe Cret prof of architecture Penn Design Univ of Pennsylvania 2004-, dir Non-Linear Systems Organization (NSO) Penn Design 2005-; Felix Candela lectr 2004, chm Yad Hanadiv Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture 2004; memb A+U Advsy Ctee 2006; Goldstein architecture, engrg and sci lectr MIT 2007; exhbns: Sports Stadion Chemnitz 2002 (Aedes Galerie Berlin) 1996, Informal (Arc en Reve Bordeaux) 2004, H_edge (Artists Space NY) 2006 and (Graham Fndn for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts Chicago) 2008, Frontiers of Architecture (Louisiana Museum of Art and Øresund Denmark) 2007, Nationale Staalprijs Telecommunicatiestand PTT 1988, Gengo Matsui Prize 2002, Charles Jencks Award for Theory in Practice 2003, AA Dip 2003, CEng, MiStructE, Hon FRIBA
Cecil Balmond, Esq's Publications
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Number 9: The Search for the Sigma Code: Nine Points Fixed in the Wind 1998, Informal: The Informal in Architecture and Engineering 2002 (Banister Fletcher Prize 2005), Element 2007; author of numerous articles, essays and interviews in learned jls
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