Erik Reitzel

Erik Reitzel (10 May 1941 – 6 February 2012^[1]) was a Danish civil engineer who started work in 1964 and was for many years a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and at the Technical University of Denmark, in the disciplines of bearing structures and structural design.^[2]

His research enabled him to discover the fundamental correlation between fracture, minimal structures and growth. This discovery makes it possible to obtain considerable savings in construction materials. Erik Reitzel is the author of books and articles on the outcomes of his research and on their practical application.^[3]

Several prizes have been awarded to Erik Reitzel in Denmark and abroad for his research and work on architectural minimal structures, as well as for interesting and original solutions to major engineering projects. It was for this reason that he was awarded the Légion d’honneur at the request of French President François Mitterrand. In 1988 he was awarded the Nykredit Architecture Prize.^[4]

Since 1971, Erik Reitzel, in partnership with his wife Inge Reitzel, has been a consultant engineer.

First prize projects

With various architects, he has participated in competitions and won several prizes, for example:

The New Parliament (Riksdag) in Stockholm, 1972
Grande Arche in Paris, 1983; originally planned as an International Communications Centre
The urban plan for Husarviken, in Stockholm, 1988
The Danish Pavilion at Expo 92 in Seville, 1989
Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark
Västra City in Stockholm, 1997

Realised projects

He has designed constructions in collaboration with various companies, cf. for example:

Grande Arche in Paris
The lift tower for Grande Arche
An exhibition platform in the Louvre, Paris
The lattice dome for Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
Church at Gammel Holte (Denmark)
The glass pyramid for the House of Industry in Copenhagen
A spiral-shaped bridge in the Sophienholm Park, at Kongens Lyngby (Denmark)
A greenhouse built like a meccano system at Virum (Denmark)
The quasi crystal structure for the Technical University of Denmark
The Symbolic Globe at UNESCO, Paris
The royal bridge on Esrum Lake (Denmark)
The transport over 2 kilometres of the Terminal VL 39 building from the Kastrup Airport to Maglebylille (Denmark)

Publications

The Symbolic Globe UNESCO Publishing, Paris 2006. ISBN 92-3-104028-6 and ISBN 978-92-3-104028-3
Structural Design of tall Buildings with a minimal Risk of Collapse CIB-CTBUH Proceedings to the international conference on Tall Buildings 2003, Kuala Lumpur, Publication 290, 2003. ISBN 9834128304
The Society seen through a Civil Engineer’s Glasses Danish Civil and Structural Science and Engineering. 2003. ISBN 8798988700
Fra sæbebobler til store bygninger (from soap bubbles to great buildings) chapter in VIDENSKABERFREMTIDEN, Villum Kann Rasmussen Fonden og Experimentarium 2003. ISBN 8798928503
Hur Nya Former Kan Uppstå (on designing new structures) Arkitekttidningen nr. 9, Stockholm 2001
Les forces dont resultent quelques monuments Parisiens de la Fin du XXe siècle LE POUVOIR ET LA VILLE À L’ÉPOQUE MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAINE, Sorbonne 2001. ISBN 2747526100
De la rupture à la structure Colloque franco-danois sur Représentation de l'espace, répartition dans l'espace - sur différentes manières d'habiter, 2000. ISBN 8798781707
Grundtræk af Bærende Konstruktioner i Arkitekturen (Bearing structures in Architecture) together with the architect Hans Friis Mathiasen, Kunstakademiets Arkitektskoles Forlag, 1999. ISBN 8787136260
Tectonics in Practice Communication at the European conference, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 1996
Musikk og Konstruktjoner (Music and Structures) Article in the book: Tversnit av et Øjeblik, Oslo 1992. ISBN 8254701032
Rupture - Structure Conférence internationale sur l'Ingénieur et l'Art, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1991
Konkurrence om Tête Défense, Paris, og projektets videre bearbejdning (the competition on Tête Défense) Arkitekten no 23, 1984
Le Cube ouvert. Structures and foundations International conference on tall buildings. Singapore, 1984. ISBN 9971840421
Spild og ressourcer (waste and resources) The National Museum of Denmark, 1980. ISBN 8748002763
Fra brud til form (From Fracture to Form) Polyteknisk Forlag, 1979. ISBN 8750204939
Tusindårig tradition (about the church of Gammel Holte) Ingeniøren no 49,1978
Energi, boliger, byggeri together with the architect Hans Friis Mathiasen, Fremad 1975. ISBN 8755705995
Om materialeøkonomiske konstruktioner og brudlinier (minimal structures and fracture lines) Bygningsstatiske meddelelser no 2, 1975
Materialeøkonomiske Konstruktioner (Minimal Structures), Arkitekten no 21, 1971

Film

The Invisible Forces (55 minutes) producer: JJ – Film. Premiere in Paris 2002, arte 2006
La Sonate de la Rupture (7 minutes) producer: JJ-Film, 2000

References

↑ "Erik Reitzel | Gyldendal - Den Store Danske" (in Danish). Denstoredanske.dk. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
↑ Source: ODG (2012-02-14). "Bokova pays tribute to the memory of Erik Reitzel | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization". Unesco.org. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
↑ "Erik Reitzel". ERI website. Virum, Denmark: Erik Reitzel Consulting Engineers. Retrieved 30 November 2013.
↑ "Nykredit Architecture Prize". Nykredit website (in Danish). Copenhagen, Denmark: Nykredit Holding A/S. 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2013.

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