About Ron Arad

Born in Tel Aviv, he studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem from 1971 to 1973, and at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London from 1974 to 1979. Ron Arad co-founded the design and production studio One Off in 1981 with Caroline Thorman. Ron Arad Associates architecture and design practice was formed in 1989, and in 2008 Ron Arad Architects was established alongside Ron Arad Associates, with Caroline Thorman and Asa Bruno.

Arad's career as a designer began with the Rover chair, a leather car seat of a Rover P6 anchored on a tubular steel frame. Ron Arad's subsequent and tireless experimentation with the possibilities of materials and technology, and his radical re-conception of the form and structure of objects large and small has put him at the forefront of contemporary design and architecture.

Ron Arad was awarded the Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) in 2002, in recognition of his sustained excellence in aesthetic and efficient design for industry', and was awarded the London Design Medal in 2011. He was professor of Design at the Hochschule in Vienna from 1994 to 1997, and later Professor of Design Products at the Royal College of Art in London up until 2009, when he was made Professor Emeritus. In 2013 he was elected as a Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Art in London.

Ron Arad has designed for all major international furniture and design brands, including ZEUS, Vitra, Kartell, Moroso, Alessi, Driade, Cappellini, Cassina, WMF, Swarovski, Roca and Magis. He has collaborated with a variety of fashion, technology and luxury brands, including Adidas, Nestle, Fiat, Samsung, LG, Bombay Sapphire, Hennessy, Ruinart, Kenzo, and Le Coq Sportif, to name a few. His public art works have adorned public spaces in London, Tokyo, Seoul, Milan, Toronto, Tel Aviv and Singapore.

Under his direction the architectural side of the practice has completed award winning projects such as the Maserati Showroom in Modena, Italy (2002), Yohji Yamamoto Flagship Store in Tokyo (2003), the Design Museum Holon in Israel (2010) and the Mediacite retail centre in Lige, Belgium. The practice is currently overseeing the construction of a 160,000 m office development in Tel Aviv, and a new Cancer Hospital in the north of Israel due to be completed in 2021. Ron Arad Architects have also designed the UK Holocaust Memorial, as part of the team responsible for the prestigious, recently-won UK National Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre project, due for completion in 2022.