Why, Where, What? / [presented by] Frank Newby.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Newby, Frank, narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial design.

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file (26 minutes)).

Place of Publication:

London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 1986.

Summary:

The late Frank Newby was one of Britain's most eminent structural engineers. He joined the practice of Felix J. Samuely on completing his studies at Cambridge, and became a partner in 1956 at the age of 30. In 1952 he won a scholarship to the USA for a year, where he worked variously with Konrad Wachsmann, Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen and Buckminster Fuller, from all of whom he acknowledges he learned a great deal. Back in England, he speaks of work he did with Edward D. Mills on the British Industrial Pavilion at Brussels Expo '58, with Stirling & Gowan on their Leicester and Oxford University buildings, with Cedric Price on the Aviary for London Zoo, with Percy Thomas Partnership on Clifton Cathedral at Bristol, and with Spero Daltas on a number of major buildings in the Middle East. His portfolio contains a host of award-winning buildings designed with award-winning practices like Ahrends Burton & Koralek, SOM, YRM, and on the strength of this he was presented in 1985 with the prestigious and rarely-awarded Gold Medal of Britain's Institution of Structural Engineers. Newby organised exhibitions and wrote and lectured widely. A lot of his effort was directed towards the introduction of courses for engineers, the history of engineering in architecture, and for architects, the explanation of structures. In his talk he says that his basic ideas did not change over the years, but merely developed. He refers to routes of stiffness and the creation of structures by producing frameworks which have to be stable and which are made up of small pieces. He maintains that the architect should use the engineer as his tool, the more so as techniques develop.

Contents:

Frank Newby, 1986

Star Beam Construction

Milwaukee Memorial Building. Sketch

US Embassy, London, With Eero Saarinen

British Industrial Pavilion, Brussels Expo 1958, With Edward D. Mills

Engineering Laboratories, Leicester University, With Stirling & Gowan

Coca-Cola Factory, Mashed, With Spero Daltas

Palace For Shah's Sister, Tehran, With Spero Daltas

Diagram: Art, Science, Technology

Aviary, London Zoo, With Lord Snowdon & Cedric Price

Clifton Cathedral, Bristol, With Percy Thomas Partnership

Bank, Saudi Arabia, With Spero Daltas

Office Building, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, With Spero Daltas

Decision Tree.

Notes:

Title from publisher's website (viewed April 28, 2021).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.