Combining playful forms and experiments with advanced technologies, RON ARAD (1951-) has emerged as one of the most influential designers of our time. Born in Tel Aviv, he moved to London in 1973 to study architecture and made his name in the early 1980s as a self-taught designer-maker of sculptural furniture. He now works across both design and architecture.
The work of Ron Arad Associates is now predominantly architectural. Two major projects are scheduled for completion in mid-2007, a new design museum for Holon, Israel and the headquarters for the domestic products manufacturer Magis in Treviso, Italy. Both employ Arad’s familiar curvilinear walls: at Holon, two rectangular blocks are linked and encircled by a ribbon-like red wall; and the Magis buildings derive from segments of a spiral curve.
Since 1997, Ron Arad has led the Design Products masters’ degree course at the Royal College of Art in London.
