Education
Adrian Carter studied architecture at Portsmouth Polytechnic, England, from 1978 to 1985.
Adrian Carter studied architecture at Portsmouth Polytechnic, England, from 1978 to 1985.
Carter also teaches at the Aarhus School of Architecture, Århus, Denmark. Under the auspices of Aalborg University, Adrian Carter initiated and established the Utzon Center and became its first Director. He then moved to Finland to work as a student trainee with architects Reima and Raili Pietilä in Helsinki.
Carter 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 The Master of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, England.
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.