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Étienne Tricaud (born 1960) is an architect and civil engineer. == Biography == Tricaud got his interest in architecture from his uncle Pierre Prunet, who was Chief Architect for the Department of Historic Monuments. Prunet carried out restoration works on structures with important heritage, but his agency also designed many new projects. But his greatest satisfaction was to work on projects that combined the two. Tricaud's visits to Prunet's agency led to a strong interest in the art of building and an appreciation of a rigorous and restrained approach that he would subsequently refine while studying architecture under Roland Schweitzer. From this experience and his (dual) architectural training, Tricaud acquired the conviction that an informed project approach could only be based on a subtle marriage between architecture and engineering, both of which providing different yet complementary sources of creation in their relationship to reality. The result is an architecture aware of the uses to be made of the building and the identity of the setting, and an engineering based on the understanding and use of the laws of physics. During his studies, attracted by teams drawing together both architects and engineers, he founded the ADP architecture and engineering agency, a firm run by Paul Andreau, and worked there as an architect on several projects. He began his professional activity as a structural engineer working for Arup Group in London and RFR in Paris. Peter Rice involved him in the design of a large number of glass and steel structures (including the glazed roofs of the Louvre) and initiated him into his very personal approach to structures which demanded both deduction and intuition, a scientific approach and considerable sensitivity. For several years, he taught structural design to architecture students at the Ecole Paris la Seine, attempting to imbue them with his enthusiasm while providing them with the tools to design space. In 1986, he met Jean-Marie Duthilleul who had recently joined the SNCF (French National Railways) to develop an architectural design policy for stations. They immediately realised that they shared the same approach to projects: a rational and contextual methodology with particular attention paid to the use and identity of the setting. The project for restructuring the Montparnasse station for which he was responsible served as an incubator, allowing them to form a team, an approach and an architectural vocabulary that they subsequently developed for the station programmes accompanying the TGV Atlantique, TGV Méditerranée and TGV Est. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Étienne Tricaud」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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