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Rod
is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Royal
Australian Institute of Architects and a fellow of the Royal Society
of Arts. He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world
on many aspects of stadia and large spectator venue design, the place
they take in our lives and where the future of these spectacular buildings
is heading. He was the creator of the concept of Stadia Generations
which is now the established categorisation of stadia through recent
history. In 2002 The University of Luton conferred on Rod the distinction
of an honorary degree of Doctor of Science in recognition of his outstanding
contribution to architecture, in particular, in the field of sport
architecture.
Born in Brisbane in 1951
and in 1975 after completing his education came to England and joined
LOBB where he became a partner in 1981 after completing sports projects
in the late seventies. Following work in Africa he was responsible
for establishing an office in India to develop the masterplanning
of three racecourses in India. He became Chairman of LOBB in 1993
and directed teams specialising in sports, leisure and entertainment
architecture from offices in London, Sydney and Brisbane. In 1998
LOBB Sports Architecture merged with HOK Sport to form the world’s
leading sports design firm.
Rod has a great enthusiasm for the future of sport architecture
with a vision for the 21st century which will herald a new breed
of facilities more user friendly, better serviced and more exciting
than any which have been built before. He loves clear articulate
design and his award winning work has been exhibited at the Royal
Academy of Arts and chosen by the Design Council for their exhibition
of work by ‘young’ architects. The ‘Times’
in London described Reebok Stadium, his teams design for Bolton
Wanderers Football Club as a ‘triumph of high tech architecture’.
In 1995 the Alfred Mc Alpine Stadium in Huddersfield won the RIBA
‘Building of the Year Award’, the first time this prestigious
award has been given to a stadium |
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