Post-war house by Sir Philip Dowson

Private eco-house in Hampshire

The Arup Associates 50 exhibition spans the history of the practice, with archival material from the 60s and 70s that has not been on display before. In addition to models, drawings and photographs, the exhibition includes a film by Tapio Snellman that captures the ideas that have inspired the practitioners who have worked at Arup Associates between 1963-2013. This includes architects Peter Foggo; Max Fordham; Tony Fretton; Rab Bennetts and Adam Caruso.

Arup’s residential projects include a single-story post-war house designed by Sir Philip Dowson completed in 1963, which was sold through The Modern House. A more recent residential project is a private eco-house in Hampshire, which consists of a family of buildings designed for modular construction, using a pre-fabricated kit of parts.

Some of the other projects explored in the exhibition include: Snape Maltings (1967); Gateway House, Wiggins Teape, Basingstoke (1976); CEGB Offices, Bedminster Down (1980); No 1 Finsbury Avenue, Broadgate (1984); Stockley Park, London (1980s-90s); Druk White Lotus School (2000-On-going); Manchester Commonwealth Games Stadium (2002); BSkyB Studios and Wind Turbine (2013).

To mark 50 years of architecture and engineering, Arup Associates have published a hardback book of their work, with an overview by architectural historian Ken Powell.