RFR was founded in Paris in 1981 as Rice Francis Ritchie sarl, by Peter Rice

Peter Rice

Peter Rice was an Irish structural engineer.Born in 52 Brigid Street, Dundalk in County Louth, he spent his childhood between the town of Dundalk, and the villages of Gyles' Quay and Inniskeen. He was educated at the Queen's University of Belfast where he received his primary degree, and spent a...

 (structural engineer), Martin Francis (industrial and yacht designer) and Ian Ritchie (architect)

Ian Ritchie (architect)

Professor Ian Ritchie CBE is a British architect. He was born in 1947 in Sussex.After working with Norman Foster , Ritchie spent two years in France designing and constructing projects. In 1979 he founded Chrysalis Architects and also worked at Arup’s Lightweight Structures Group in London...

. It has offices in Stuttgart, Germany; Shanghai, China; and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

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.

Recognition

It has won many international awards including French and European steel awards, RIBA Awards, 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

Louvre Pyramid

The Louvre Pyramid is a large glass and metal pyramid, surrounded by three smaller pyramids, in the main courtyard of the Louvre Palace in Paris. The large pyramid serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum...

• Cité des Sciences, La Villette

Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie

The Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie is the biggest science museum in Europe. Located in Parc de la Villette in Paris, France, it is at the heart of the Cultural Center of Science, Technology and Industry , a center promoting science and science culture.About five million people visit the Cité...

• Charles de Gaulle International Airport

Charles de Gaulle International Airport

Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport , also known as Roissy Airport , in the Paris area, is one of the world's principal aviation centres, as well as France's largest airport. It is named after Charles de Gaulle , leader of the Free French Forces and founder of the French Fifth Republic...

 (Roissy) Airport Terminal 2F

• Roissy Airport TGV Station

• Avignon TGV Station

• World Trade Center (Amsterdam)

World Trade Center (Amsterdam)

The World Trade Center Amsterdam is a commercial center located at the Zuidas in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It was officially opened in 1985, and renovated between 1998 and 2004. The center consists of nine buildings—labeled from A to I—with 120,000 m2 of offices and office facilities. Tower...

• Irish Parliament Building

• Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir

Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, often shortened to Simone de Beauvoir , was a French existentialist philosopher, public intellectual, and social theorist. She wrote novels, essays, biographies, an autobiography in several volumes, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and...

Bridge http://www.architectureweek.com/2006/1004/index.html

External links

RFR http://www.rfr.fr

Ian Ritchie Architects http://www.ianritchiearchitects.co.uk

Peter Rice http://www.irish-architecture.com/architects_ireland/peter_rice/index.htmlhttp://www.icivilengineer.com/Famous_Engineers/Rice

Sources

• http://www.architectureweek.com/2006/1004/index.html
• http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/RFR,_Paris,_France
• http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Passerelle_Simone_de_Beauvoir