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As an engineer who worked so closely with architects it is unsurprising that Peter Rice was so passionately interested in the treatment of light in buildings but the description of his involvement in the Full-moon Theatre shows the extent of his interest.
Book review: Traces of Peter Rice. Peter Rice is famous for his key input in many landmark projects such as the Sydney Opera House, the Pompidou Centre, the Pyramid in front of the Louvre and the delicate tensile ‘clouds’ suspended below the Grand Arch in La Defense, Paris.
- Dermot O'Dwyer
- 2014
Feb 28, 2019 · The late Peter Rice was an Irish visionary who brought flair and imagination to his engineering work on some of the most iconic and challenging buildings constructed throughout the 20th century.
- Marcus Robinson
An Engineer Imagines is a rare look into the professional creativity and philosophy of Peter Rice, who was widely acclaimed as the greatest structural engineer of his generation. He was a man who, in Renzo Piano’s words, could design structures ‘like a pianist who can play with his eyes shut’.
Sep 20, 2001 · The Engineer's Contribution to Contemporary Architecture is a series which has already examined the work of Eladio Dieste, Anthony Hunt, Heinz Isler and Owen Williams. AndrÚ Brown's new book sets out Peter Rice's design approach and describes his main built and unbuilt projects, writes Alex Wright. The collection of these projects under one ...
May 24, 1994 · An Engineer Imagines, by Peter Rice (Artemis, 1994; Ellipsis, 1996) Reviewed by Ian Ritchie. The essential is invisible to the eye. This idea seems to permeate Peter’s book, which is an illustrated autobiography of a professional career.
Rice used the memoir form of An Engineer Imagines to provide some kind of answer to the question: why had he, against all the odds, chosen this awkward but tactile material?
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