Cecil Balmond and Cecil Bowman were translated from Taiwan Province.
World-famous structural engineer. Focus on innovative structural architectural design direction. He is currently vice president, partner, head of operation department and head of senior geometry department of OveARUP.
Chinese name: Cecil Balmond.
Ceci Balmond
Alias: Cecil Bowman
Occupation: structural engineer
Main achievements: Matsui Genwu Award
Masterpiece: Different rules
Gender: male
experience
He has cooperated with the world's top architects for a long time, completed a large number of innovative buildings and structures, and promoted structural engineering to an innovative behavior. His interest pays special attention to using numbers, algebra and music as visual elements to reflect the dynamics of geometric structures.
His recent works include the renovation project of Battersea Power Plant in London; London snake gallery temporary building in 2002; New World Trade Center and China Beijing CCTV.
Cecil has also given lectures and guidance to architecture schools and universities in many countries, including professors from the School of Architecture of the University of Pennsylvania and members of the Academic Examination Committee of AA School in London.
work
Cecil's works mainly focus on the exploration of innovative design in engineering creation, using form, algebraic reasoning and advanced technology to create new designs different from the past. Include the number 9 (1998), different rules (2002) and elements (2007).
Get a reward
Awards include: GengoMatsuiPrize Matsui Kengo Award (2002), Serpentine Gallery, and cooperation with toyo ito.
Charles Jenks Award for Theory and Practice (2003).
Resume:
1943 was born in Sri Lanka
1948- 195 1 Primary school is studying at the Royal College of Colombo.
1952-60 middle school studied at trinity college in Candy.
1958 learning to play the guitar
1959 won the National Ideal Home Design Award.
1960 University of Ceylon
196 1 came to Bataan Island, Nigeria to reunite with the parents of immigrants due to racial problems.
Enter ibadan University to study mathematics and chemistry.
Perform music on TV programs regularly.
1962-65 learning structure engineering of Southampton university
1963-64 organize and operate non-governmental organizations.
Many music performances are held on the southern coast of England.
1965 Return to Nigeria
1966 Joined Arup Engineering Company ibadan Branch. Engaged in architecture and road and bridge design.
1967 left Nigeria because of the Biafra war.
1968 Joining Arup Project in London.
1970 tried to be a professional musician. Finally, I decided to take music as my greatest hobby and stay in Arup.
197 1 graduate student, master's degree, Royal College London.
1972 joined the newly established multidisciplinary engineering team in Arup, London.
1972 Meet Mr. Arup (commentator on the first major project of Carlsberg Brewery in Northampton) and Knut Monk (who used to work in Wuzhong Office).
1972-75 provides classical guitar indoor classes.
1972-78 cooperated with many architects, including Knut Monk of Denmark; Sergei Xie Miao of the Boston Union of Architects; Denise rolston; James Sterling, whose cooperation with Sterling lasted until his death, and his works included the Stuttgart National Art Museum.
1978-79 made a short stop in Qatar, Iran.
1980-83 was in charge of Arup Saudi Arabia branch and completed some important construction and civil engineering projects.
1986 got to know Rem Koolhaas and started a long-term cooperation with OMA. The first project is the competition (failure) of Morgan Stanley Bank in the Netherlands. The second project is the Hague City Hall (although the competition won, the project was finally completed by another firm). After that, several successful projects were completed, including Rotterdam Art Center, the recent new headquarters building of Beijing CCTV and the temporary exhibition hall of London Snake Gallery in 2006.
1988 began to study ancient Greek mathematics and architecture.
1990 Visiting Professor at Stade Art Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, starting a journey of academic research.
1990-95 began to cooperate with many famous architects, including: Enrique Milarez; Isozaki Nobuyuki; Toyo ito; United nations studio; Daniel Lipskin; Alvaro siza; Eduardo Soto Demora.
1990 was selected for the first architectural design competition of the original railway base in Rotterdam.
1992 began to set foot in the theoretical research of nonlinear design technology. The concept of wardrobe has taken shape.
1995 held a lecture in Berlin to discuss "different laws and regulations" for the first time.
1998 published the book number 9.
1999 Head of Operations Department of Arup.
2000 Director of Europe Department of Arup.
200 1 Start the temporary exhibition hall project of London Snake Gallery, and cooperate with Lipskin, Ito, Niemeyer, MVRDV, Siza, Soto Demora and Koolhaas.
In 2002, he published the book Different Regulations.
Vice President of Arup in 2002. The head of the construction department. Aiming at the research of architecture and structural engineering, advanced geometry department was established in Arup.
In 2002, I met Anis Kapoor and completed the Marcias project of Tate Gallery in London.
Special research fellow of Arup in 2002.
In 2004, different regulations won many awards, including bannister Fletcher's Best Architectural Book Award.
Professor Ben Dakli in 2004
Survived the tsunami on the east coast of Sri Lanka in 2004.
In 2005, he founded the Institute of Nonlinear Systems (NLSO) of the University of Pennsylvania.
In 2006, the space installation for artists in new york was completed.