Ian Ritchie (architect)
Ian Ritchie is a British architect, artist and author, who founded Ian Ritchie Architects in 1981. His projects include the RIBA Award-winning Susie Sainsbury Theatre and Angela Burgess Recital Hall for the Royal Academy of Music, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University College London and the American Institute of Architects Award-winning Royal Shakespeare Company Courtyard Theatre. Ritchie was the first foreign architect to receive the French Academie d’Architecture Grand Silver Medal for Innovation.
Career
Ritchie graduated from Liverpool John Moores University School of Architecture in 1968. He went on to research Urban Studies for a year in Oita-Osaka, Japan and graduated with a Diploma in Architecture with Distinction from PCL, London in 1972. After working with Norman Foster, Ritchie spent two years in France designing and constructing projects before joining Arup's Lightweight Structures Group. In 1979, he founded Chrysalis Architects with Alan Stanton and Mike Davies. In 1981, he created Ian Ritchie Architects in London, and co-founded the design engineering firm Rice Francis Ritchie with Peter Rice and Martin Francis in Paris. Before he left RFR in 1990, the practice had been responsible for major projects in Paris including the Bioclimatic Facades at La Villette Cité des Sciences and the Louvre Pyramids and Sculpture Courts with I M Pei. Alongside his work at Ian Ritchie Architects, Ritchie has held numerous public and professional appointments relating to his public policy interests in pan-disciplinary and environmentally intelligent design. He has acted in an advisory and teaching capacity to government, universities and charitable trusts, and regularly lectures on topics including art, urbanism and regeneration at venues worldwide. Among other accolades, Ritchie was awarded a CBE in 2000, and was elected a Royal Academician in 1998 and Professor of Architecture at the RA Schools in 2004. Ritchie have received over 80 national and international award nominations and have been shortlisted four times for the RIBA Stirling Prize and EU Mies Award. Ritchie is an elected member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.Major architectural projects
In 1999, Ian Ritchie Architects completed Scotland's Home of Tomorrow - new social housing for Glasgow's East End| Image | Project | Awards and nominations |
Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art Madrid, Spain Completed 1990 | ||
Louvre Museum Inverted Pyramid Paris, France Completed 1993 | ||
Leipzig Messe Glass Hall Germany Completed 1995 |
| |
| Crystal Palace Concert Platform Completed 1997 |
| |
| Jubilee Line Extension, Bermondsey Station London, UK Completed 1999 |
| |
| Plymouth Theatre Royal Production Centre Plymouth, UK Completed 2002 |
| |
| The Spire Dublin, Ireland Completed 2003 |
| |
| RSC Courtyard Theatre Stratford-upon-Avon, UK Completed 2006 RSC The Other Place Stratford-upon-Avon, UK Completed 2016 | RSC Courtyard Theatre
| |
| Wood Lane Underground Station London, UK Completed 2008 |
| |
| Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits & Behaviour, University College London London, UK Completed 2016 |
| |
| Royal Academy of Music Susie Sainsbury Theatre and the Angela Burgess Recital Hall London, UK completed 2018 |
|