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.
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Ove Arup is considered to be among the foremost architectural structural engineers of his time.
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Ove Arup was born in Newcastle, England, in 1895, to the Danish veterinary surgeon Jens Simon Johannes Ove Arup and his Norwegian wife Mathilde Bolette Nyquist.
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Ove Arup attended the Sorø Academy in Denmark, a boarding school with many influences from Thomas Arnold of the Rugby School in the United Kingdom.
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Ove Arup married Ruth Sørensen, known as Li, on 13 August 1925.
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Ove Arup designed the Labworth Cafe—a cafe with two integrated shelters set on the promenade of the neighbouring Essex seaside resort of Canvey Island.
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The close working relationship that Arup developed with Tecton's senior partner Berthold Lubetkin, proved to be highly important in the development of both men's careers.
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Ove Arup became a member of the executive committee of the MARS Group in 1935.
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Ove Arup played a significant part in the design of the Mulberry temporary harbours used during the D-Day landings.
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Ove Arup personally supervised the design and construction of Durham's Kingsgate Bridge in 1963.
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The firm's first bridge, Ove Arup was particularly attached to the project and had his ashes scattered from it following his death.
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