Erik Reitzel


Erik Reitzel 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 the Technical University of Denmark, in the disciplines of bearing structures and structural design.
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 their practical application.
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.
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:

Realised projects

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

Publications

The Symbolic Globe UNESCO Publishing, Paris 2006. and 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. The Society seen through a Civil Engineer’s Glasses Danish Civil and Structural Science and Engineering. 2003. Fra sæbebobler til store bygninger chapter in VIDENSKABERFREMTIDEN, Villum Kann Rasmussen Fonden og Experimentarium 2003. Hur Nya Former Kan Uppstå Arkitekttidningen nr. 9, Stockholm 2001Les 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. De la rupture à la structure Colloque franco-danois sur Représentation de l'espace, répartition dans l'espace - sur différentes manières d'habiter, 2000. Grundtræk af Bærende Konstruktioner i Arkitekturen together with the architect Hans Friis Mathiasen, Kunstakademiets Arkitektskoles Forlag, 1999. Tectonics in Practice Communication at the European conference, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, 1996Musikk og Konstruktjoner Article in the book: Tversnit av et Øjeblik, Oslo 1992. Rupture - Structure Conférence internationale sur l'Ingénieur et l'Art, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1991Konkurrence om Tête Défense, Paris, og projektets videre bearbejdning Arkitekten no 23, 1984Le Cube ouvert. Structures and foundations International conference on tall buildings. Singapore, 1984. Spild og ressourcer The National Museum of Denmark, 1980. Fra brud til form Polyteknisk Forlag, 1979. Tusindårig tradition Ingeniøren no 49,1978Energi, boliger, byggeri together with the architect Hans Friis Mathiasen, Fremad 1975. Om materialeøkonomiske konstruktioner og brudlinier Bygningsstatiske meddelelser no 2, 1975Materialeøkonomiske Konstruktioner, Arkitekten no 21, 1971

Film

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