Adrian Carter

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Adrian Carter is an English-born architect. He was the founding director of the Utzon Center in Denmark, and has held various academic positions at a number of architectural schools, notably at Aalborg University and the Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark, and Bond University in Australia, since 2014.

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Early life and education

Adrian Carter studied architecture at Portsmouth Polytechnic, England. [1]

He then moved to Finland to work as a student trainee with architects Reima and Raili Pietilä in Helsinki. [1] He then continued his studies at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture Copenhagen, where he qualified as an architect, and later receiving an MPhil at the University of Cambridge, England. [1]

Career

Architecture

Carter then went to work as an assistant for architects Anchor, Mortlock and Woolley in Sydney, Australia. After this he moved to Norway to work as an assistant for architect Niels Torp in Oslo, during the design of the Aker Brygge harbour development in Oslo. After that he worked as an assistant for architect Henning Larsen. Following that he worked for architects Dissing+Weitling in Copenhagen, during the design of the Storebælt Suspension Bridge.

Academia

Carter taught at the Aarhus School of Architecture from 2000 and in 2005 was appointed associate professor at the Department of Architecture and Design at Aalborg University, Denmark, and director of the Utzon Center (named after Jørn Utzon) in Aalborg. Carter has also taught at the Aarhus School of Architecture in Århus, Denmark. Under the auspices of Aalborg University, Carter initiated and established the Utzon Center and became its first director.

The Utzon Center building on the Aalborg harbour front was designed by Jørn Utzon in conjunction with his architect son Kim Utzon¹s office and opened to the public in May 2008. [2]

Carter has been an honorary associate professor at the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney and has acted as an advisor to the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage in their nomination of the Sydney Opera House for inscription on the World Heritage List. [1]

Carter was announced as Head of Discipline, Abedian School of Architecture, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia, in 2014. [3]

In film

Carter features in the documentary film Richard Leplastrier: Framing the View, as a friend of Sydney architect Richard Leplastrier. He co-authored a book with Leplastrier called Ethos. [4] [5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Thursday Night Public Lectures Thursday Night Lecture @ the University of Sydney, April 2". Archived from the original on 3 October 2009. Retrieved 29 March 2010. Adrian Carter, Aalborg University, Denmark: The architecture of Jørn Utzon: Sources, influences and vision.
  2. ↑ "The Utzon Research Center" Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved 22 September 2011.
  3. ↑ "New Head of Architecture appointed". Bond University. 25 September 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
  4. ↑ Scarton, Elisa (30 April 2020). "ABC to premiere documentary on Richard Leplastrier". Australian Design Review. Archived from the original on 16 March 2025. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
  5. ↑ "'National living treasure' Richard Leplastrier on film". ArchitectureAu. 11 May 2020. Archived from the original on 10 June 2020. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
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