Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Ove Arup

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Sir Ove Nyquist Arup, CBE, MICE, MIStructE, FCIOB was an English engineer who founded Arup Group Limited, a multinational corporation that offers engineering, design, planning, project management, and consulting services for building systems. Ove Arup is considered to be among the foremost architectural structural engineers of his time.

English - Engineer | April 16, 1895 - February 5, 1988

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When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.

Ove Arup

Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This is a creative activity, involving imagination, intuition and deliberate choice.

Ove Arup

Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve particular practical problems. In this it is more closely related to art or craft.

Ove Arup

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Ove Arup

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