RFR Engineers
RFR was founded in Paris in 1981 as Rice Francis Ritchie sarl, by Peter Rice (structural engineer), Martin Francis (industrial and yacht designer) and Ian Ritchie (architect). It has offices in Stuttgart, Germany; Shanghai, China; and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.The firm has distinguished itself over the intervening years on many projects, executed in every part of the world. The wide range of skills possessed by its staff, composed of engineers, architects and industrial designers, enable it to operate in very diverse contexts, and to use the widest variety of materials.
RFR is a leading design engineering firm with its head office based in Paris and specialises in the design of complex structures and sophisticated building envelopes that reconcile engineering and architecture.RFR has been able to design structures of high quality, intended for unique locations like the Musée du Louvre or the Louis Vuitton store on the avenue des Champs Elysées in Paris, the Capitol in Washington, the Irish Parliament building in Dublin, or the library of the Indian Parliament in New Delhi.
Recognition
It has won many international laurels and awards including French/European steel awards, RIBA Awards,INGENIEURBAUPREIS 2006 for the AWD stadium in Hanover,Académie de l'Architecture Silver Medal for Research and Technique.
Publications
• Le verre structurel, Peter Rice, Hugh Dutton, Editions du Moniteur, Paris, 1990
• Exploring materials, the work of Peter Rice, RIBA Gallery, London1992
• Peter Rice, An Engineer imagines, Artemis, London, 1994
• L'art de l'ingénieur, B.Vaudeville, JF.Blassel, H.Bardsley, M.Kutterer, Petit journal de l'exposition, 1997
• L'art de l'ingénieur : constructeur, entrepreneur, inventeur, Antoine Picon, 1997
Lectures
Members of RFR regularly lecture internationally on glass structures and new geometric applications, including the Pisa university, Technical University Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), and Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture, Paris, France.
Notable works
• Louvre Pyramid
• Cité des Sciences, La Villette
• Charles de Gaulle International Airport (Roissy) Airport Terminal 2F
• Roissy Airport TGV Station
• Avignon TGV Station
• World Trade Center (Amsterdam)
• Irish Parliament Building
• Simone de Beauvoir Bridge [1]
External links
RFR [2]
Ian Ritchie Architects [3]
Peter Rice [4][5]
