Ian C Ritchie, Esq, CBE, RA's Biography

Ian C Ritchie, Esq, CBE, RA's Professional Career

Career

architect; ptnr Chrysalis Architects 1979-81, princ Ian Ritchie Architects 1981-, co-fndr and dir Rice Francis Ritchie (RFR) Paris (engrg design) 1981-88; projects incl: Fluy House Picardy 1976-77, Eagle Rock House Sussex 1980-82, La Villette Science City (with A Fainsilber) Paris 1981-86, The Louvre (sculpture courts and pyramids with I M Pei) Paris 1985-93, Roy Square Housing Limehouse 1986-88, L'Arche Cloud Paris 1986-90, Ecology Gallery at Natural History Museum 1989-90, Reina Sofia CARS Madrid (with Castro and Onzono) 1989-91, offices at Stockley Park London 1989-91, Jubilee Line Extension Bermondsey Station 1990-99, Albert Cultural Centre Somme 1991-93, Terrasson Cultural Greenhouse 1992-94, Leipzig Messe Central Glass Hall (with V Marg) 1992-96, HV Pylons for Electricité de France 1995, London Regatta Centre 1995-97, Crystal Palace Concert Platform 1997, Scotland's Home of Tomorrow Glasgow 1997, The Spire (Dublin's 21st century nat monument) 1998, ARTE TV HQ Strasbourg 1998, White City Redevelopment 1998-2005, Milan's Light Monument 1999, Plymouth Theatre Royal Prodn Centre 1999-2002, Wood Lane Station 2000-08, RSC Courtyard Theatre 2005, King Solomon Acad 2009; cmmr: Royal Fine Art Cmmn (RFAC) 1995-99, CABE 1999-2001 (now cmmr emeritus); advsr Nat History Museum 1991-95, advsr to the Lord Chllr 1999-2004, advsr Arup Fndn 2003-, masterplanner to British Museum 2004-06, govr and architectural advsr RSC 2001- (memb Int Cncl 2006-), advsr pres Columbia Univ NY Manhattanville Project, advsr dean architecture and construction Greenwich Univ; designs exhibited and published worldwide; special prof Sch of Civil Engrg Univ of Leeds 2001-04, prof of architecture Royal Acad of Arts 2004-; visiting prof: Moscow Univ 1991, TU Vienna 1994-95; hon visiting prof Univ of Liverpool 2009-; has taught at: Oita Univ Japan 1970, Planning Sch PCL 1972, Architectural Assoc 1979-82; DTI IBIS Project gatekeeper 1996-2001, chm Europan UK 1997-2003; memb: Urban Design Advsy Gp LDDC 1990-97, Cncl UK Steel Construction Inst 1994-97, Editorial Bd CITY jl 1994-99, Research Advsy Ctee Nat Maritime Museum 1995-97, UK Govt Foresight Construction Panel 1996-98, Spatial Devpt Strategy Policy Cmmn GLA 2000-01, Advsy Ctee Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (IDBE) Univ of Cambridge 2001-04, Built Environment Panel and Design Panel ctees Royal Cmmn for the Exhbn of 1851 2001-, UK Nat Construction Technol Platform 2005-, European Construction Technol Platform High Level Gp 2005-08, Mayor of London's Design Panel 2007-08; RIBA: external examiner 1983-95, 2000-04 and 2007-, Pres's Medal assessor 1987, nat chm of awards 1988, Civic Tst assessor, chair RIBA Stirling Award 2006; Royal Acad of Arts: memb Cncl, chm Arts Collections and Library Ctee 2000-09, memb Mgmnt Ctee 2001-04, memb Magazine Editorial Bd; memb: IABSE, Scientists for Global Responsibility; registered ARB 1979, registered German architect 1993, Tableau de L'Ordre des Architectes Français 1982; Hon DLitt Univ of Westminster 2000; RIBA 1979, FRSA 1981, RA 1998, RIAI 2008, Hon FRIAS 2009, Hon FAIA 2010; Awards Silver Medal Architectural Design 1982, Plus Beaux Ouvrages de Construction Metallique France 1986 and 1988, IRITECNA Prize for Europe 1991, Eric Lyons Meml Award for Euro Housing 1992, Robert Matthew Award for innovation and advancement of architecture Commonwealth Assoc of Architects 1994, RFAC Tst Arts Building of the Year 1998, Stephen Lawrence Award 1998, RIBA Awards 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004 and 2007, shortlisted Stirling Prize 1998, 2003, 2004 and 2007, Civic Tst Award 1998 and 2002, AIA Award London 1998, 2003 and 2008, RFAC Tst Sports Building of the Year 2000, Grand Silver Medal Académie d'Architecture France 2000, 2 Design Cncl Millennium Product Awards 2000, Regeneration of Scotland Supreme Award 2000, IABSE Int Outstanding Structure Award 2000, Copper Building of the Year 2000, Innovation in Copper Award 2000 and 2003, RFAC Tst Building of the Year 2003, Abercrombie Architectural Design Award 2004, shortlisted Mies van der Rohe Prize 2005, West Midlands Architect of the Year 2006, HSBC Rail Business Award 2009, RICS Award 2011

Ian C Ritchie, Esq, CBE, RA's Publications

Books and Publications

(Well) Connected Architecture (1994), Architektur mit (Guten) Verbindungen (1994), The Biggest Glass Palace in the World (1997), subject of Ian Ritchie Tecnoecologia (A Rocca, 1998, in Italian, trans into English as Ian Ritchie Technoecology, 1998), Plymouth Theatre Royal Production Centre (2003), The Spire (2004), RSC Courtyard Theatre (2006), Leipzig Glass Hall (2007), Ian Ritchie Lines (2010), Being: An Architect (2012), Four London Underground (2012)

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