Cecil Balmond
Engineer, Ove Orup, London
Kenzo Tange Lecture
February 14, 2001
A Selected Bibliography
Websites
Ove Arup & Partners
http://www.arup.com
Books
Jose Mateo, Quim Rosell, Cecil Balmond. Natur und Abstraktion. Barcelona: Actar, 1995. Contributions in German and English. A compilation of some ideas and results of Jose Luis Mateo's professorship at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich, with contributions by lecturers, external critics and students.
Loeb Design: NA1313.M38 N38 1995
Cecil Balmond. Number 9: the search for the sigma code: nine fixed points in the wind. Munich; New York: Prestel, 1998.
Loeb Design: QA241.B255 1998
Daniel Libeskind, Cecil Balmond. Unfolding[kit]. Rotterdam: Netherlands Architecture Institute, [1997]. Description: 6 booklets, 4 folded sheets, 1 folded booklet, 1 sheet: illustrations (some color); in container 44 x 31 x 3 cm. Notes: "[This box] has been produced on the occasion of the exhibition 'Beyond the Wall 26.36' in the Netherlands Architecture Institute from 6 September to 23 November 1997. "
Loeb Design: Oversize Rare NA1088.L53 L530 1997
Articles by and about Cecil Balmond
Philip Nobel, Rencontre avec Cecil Balmond, ingénieur [interview], Architecture d'aujourd'hui, 2000 July-Aug., no.329, p.44-49. Notes: In French and English. Interview with C. Balmond of Ove Arup & Partners with several examples of his work shown (aerial photos, sketches, models, sections).Music theater, Graz, Graz, Austria 1998, A + U: architecture and urbanism, 1999 Mar., no.3 (342), p.142-151. In English and Japanese. Illustrations, sections, plans, site plans, diagrams, computer drawings.
New building of the Architectural Institute of Venice University, Magazzini Frigoriferi a San Basilio, Venice, Italy 1998, A + U: architecture and urbanism, 1999 Mar., no.3 (342), p.130-141. In English and Japanese.
Kester Rattenbury, Drowning by numbers, Building design, 1999 May 28, no. 1397, p. 32. Reviews lecture given by Cecil Balmond at the Architectural Association in London.
Competition entry by Ben van Berkel of UN-Studio with Cecil Balmond, Quaderns d'arquitectura i urbanisme, 1999, n.222, p.38-[49]. In Catalan and English. Illustrations, photos., models, elevations, sections, site plans, diagrams, computer drawings.
Organique et fluide, Architecture d'aujourd'hui, 1999 Dec., no.325, p.86-105. In French and English. Includes design for stadium in Chemnitz, Germany (P. Kulka & U. König, architects, C. Balmond, structural engineer). Illustrations, photos., models, sketches, drawings, elevations, sections, plans, diagrams, computer drawings, axonometric drawings.
Ed Melet, Constructies ontfutseld aan het grid: dragende architectuur van Cecil Balmond. Architect, 1998 Dec., v.29, no.[12], p.64-69. English summary, p.101. On Cecil Balmond's ideas about the integration of architecture and engineering, which take off from the ideas of Peter Rice. Sketches, diagrams, computer drawings.
Jeremy Melvin, Engineering by numbers, Architects' journal, 1998 Mar.12, v.207, no.10, p.22-23. Profile of Ceylon-born British engineer Cecil Balmond of Ove Arup & Partners.
Cecil Balmond, New structure and the informal, Lotus, 1998 Sept., no. 98, p.70-83. In Italian and English. Illustrations, photos, plans, models, portraits.
Huit portraits d'ingénieurs, Architecture intérieure-Créé, 1997, no.277, p.30-35. Brief introductions to Tom Barker and Cecil Balmond of Ove Arup & Partners et al. Computer drawings, photos. Kaskadenspirale = Cascading spiral [Boilerhouse extension, London 1996].
Arch plus, 1997 Oct., n.138, p.54-60. In German and English. Models, sketches, sections.
Andrew Mead, Libeskind goes 'Beyond the Wall' in Rotterdam [exhibition review], Architects' journal, 1997 Sept.11, v.206, no.9, p.26. Review of a "dramatic exhibition": Daniel Libeskind - Beyond the Wall, 26.36°," at the Netherlands Architecture Institute. Photos, computer drawings.
Cecil Balmond, New structure and the informal, Architectural design, 1997 Sept.-Oct., v.67, no.9-10, p.88-96. Recent projects by Balmond and Ove Arup & Partners with Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind and Peter Kulka. Photos., models, diagrams, computer drawings.
Cecil Balmond, Informeller Diskurs über die Konstruktion, Arch plus, 1996 Apr., n.131, p.34-39. In English and German. Discusses the structure of the author's entry for the Chemnitz stadium competition. Diagrams, sketches.
Congrexpo, Arch plus, 1994 Dec., n.124-125, p.23-33. On the new congress hall for Euralille, France. Architects: Rem Koolhaas/O.M.A., François Delhay; engineers: Cecil Balmond, Ove Arup & Partners. Includes an illustrated essay by C. Balmond. Computer drawings, diagrams, photos, plans, sections, sketches, aerial photos.
Cecil Balmond, The mechanical egg: lights and covers in the conference/exhibition center in Lille, Arquitectura viva, 1994 Nov./Dec., no. 39, p. 42-45. In Spanish. Photos, plans, diagrams. Room, Ahrensfelde Triangel, Norwich Castle Museum,
AA files, 1992 Autumn, no.24, p.47-54. Includes Ahrendsfelde triangle, Berlin-Brandenburg (with Cecil Balmond, Nick McMahon) and Norwich Castle Museum (with Richard Francis). Models, photos, plans, site plans, aerial photos.
Motomu Uno, On architecture and engineering [interview], Kenchiku bunka, 1992 Feb., v.47, no.544, p.75-125. In Japanese and English. Part of special feature entitled: Architecture and engineering. Ove Arup and Partners. Interviews with 16 architects and engineers. Axonometric view, drawings, portraits., elevations, models., photos, plans, sketches, isometric drawing.
Cecil Balmond, The engineer in the architectural project, Quaderns, 1993, no. 199, p. 86-91. In Spanish and English.
David Alting, Cecil Balmond, and Tom Barker, Stuttgart Art Gallery, Arup journal, 1984 Oct., v. 19, no. 3, p. 10-17.