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2 unusual facts about Fred Severud


Fred Severud

Frei Otto, the German architect and engineer famous for membrane and tensile structures such as the Olympic Stadium in Munich, visited his office in 1951 during the construction of the Raleigh Livestock Arena, and Edmund (Ted) Happold worked for a couple of years in his office.

Severud Associates

The firm, founded in 1928 by Fred Severud, has worked on over 12,000 projects around the world.



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Edmund Happold

In 1959 Happold moved to work with Fred Severud (a civil engineer whose work included the structural design of Madison Square Garden and the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, and engineer for Eero Saarinen who died June 1990 in Miami Florida) in New York, before returning to London to work with Ove Arup and Partners in 1961.